Schema-agnostic databases

<p>Schema-agnostic databases or vocabulary-independent databases aim at supporting users to be abstracted from the representation of the data, supporting the automatic <a href="/facts/Semantic_matching/34YPYY0m">semantic matching</a> between queries and <a href="/facts/Database/VYcpkevb">databases</a>. Schema-agnosticism is the property of a database of mapping a query issued with the user terminology and structure, automatically mapping it to the dataset vocabulary.
</p><p>The increase in the size and in the semantic heterogeneity of database schemas bring new requirements for users querying and searching <a href="/facts/Structured_data/j1YyzpJ3">structured data</a>. At this scale it can become unfeasible for data consumers to be familiar with the representation of the data in order to query it. At the center of this discussion is the <a href="/facts/Semantic_gap/EVM27Ke2">semantic gap</a> between users and databases, which becomes more central as the scale and complexity of the data grows.
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Schema-agnostic databases open-in-new

Schema-agnostic databases