Laura M. Haas
Mauricio A. Hernández
ABSTRACT
Clio, the IBM Research system for expressing declarative schema mappings, has progressed in the past few years from a research prototype into a technology that is behind some of IBM's mapping technology. Clio provides a declarative way of specifying schema mappings between either XML or relational schemas. Mappings are compiled into an abstract query graph representation that captures the transformation semantics of the mappings. The query graph can then be serialized into different query languages, depending on the kind of schemas and systems involved in the mapping. Clio currently produces XQuery, XSLT, SQL, and SQL/XML queries. In this paper, we revisit the architecture and algorithms behind Clio. We then discuss some implementation issues, optimizations needed for scalability, and general lessons learned in the road towards creating an industrial-strength tool.
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