Data modeling across the evolution of database technology

Abstract

Data modeling has always been a fundamental issue across the whole evolution of database technology, as it is witnessed by the vast literature addressing this issue across the last thirty years. In this paper, we present the studies done by members of the database and big data research group of Roma Tre University on the issue of data modeling in the context of several milestones in field of databases: logic-based and object-oriented databases, data warehousing, and NoSQL systems. We also discuss our proposal for a general framework that allows the description of different models and the translation of schemas from one to another.