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Title
Keeping the data lake in form : proximity mining for pre-filtering schema matching
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Abstract
Data lakes (DLs) are large repositories of raw datasets from disparate sources. As more datasets are ingested into a DL, there is an increasing need for efficient techniques to profile them and to detect the relationships among their schemata, commonly known as holistic schema matching. Schema matching detects similarity between the information stored in the datasets to support information discovery and retrieval. Currently, this is computationally expensive with the volume of state-of-the-art DLs. To handle this challenge, we propose a novel early-pruning approach to improve efficiency, where we collect different types of content metadata and schema metadata about the datasets, and then use this metadata in early-pruning steps to pre-filter the schema matching comparisons. This involves computing proximities between datasets based on their metadata, discovering their relationships based on overall proximities and proposing similar dataset pairs for schema matching. We improve the effectiveness of this task by introducing a supervised mining approach for effectively detecting similar datasets that are proposed for further schema matching. We conduct extensive experiments on a real-world DI, that proves the success of our approach in effectively detecting similar datasets for schema matching, with recall rates of more than 85%center dot and efficiency improvements above 70%. We empirically show the computational cost saving in space and time by applying our approach in comparison to instance-based schema matching techniques.
Language
English
Source (journal)
ACM transactions on information systems. - New York, N.Y.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : 2020
ISSN
1046-8188
DOI
10.1145/3388870
Volume/pages
38 :3 (2020) , 30 p.
Article Reference
26
ISI
000583695800006
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Digitalisation and Tax (DigiTax).
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 08.12.2024
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