Technologies

What are the benefits?

• Personalized and real-time configurable views of an integrated heterogeneous data environment (relational databases, XML documents, object-oriented databases, frame-based knowledge bases, multimedia, etc.)

• Users and applications focus on asking the right questions because ADINA insulates them from underlying data source schemas, ontologies, query languages, interrelationships, and terminology.

• Access language is closer to natural language, making the queries easier to express by application programmers.

• Data sources remain autonomous because they just "describe" themselves to ADINA. They do not need to conform to metadata standards or provide software wrappers.

• Loose coupling between users and data. When data source structures change, the applications still work.

• Scalability - diverse sources can be integrated and modified with ease.