Abstract

As relational database systems do not support collaborative dataset editing, online lexicons---such as Wikipedia's Media Wiki---build their own version control above the database system to allow constraint-preserving version checkouts or commits involving multiple tables. To eliminate the need for purpose-specific solutions, we propose adding version control as a layer on top of the database system or integrating versioning in the database system's core.

Keywords:
Computer science Software versioning Relational database Database Relational database management system Database design Information retrieval World Wide Web Programming language Software

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Citation History

Topics

Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Computer Networks and Communications
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence
Web Data Mining and Analysis
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Information Systems
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