Capturing the History and Change Structure of Evolving Data Full text

George Papastefanatos, Yannis Stavrakas, and Theodora Galani
Fifth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA 2013), Seville, Spain, January 2013
2013
Conference/Workshop
Abstract. Evo-graph is a model for data evolution that encompasses multiple versions of data and treats changes as first-class citizens. A change in evo-graph can be compound, comprising disparate changes, and is associated with the data items it affects. In previous papers we have shown that recording data evolution with evo-graph is very useful in cases where the provenance of the data needs to be traced, and past states of data need to be re-assessed. We have specified how an evo-graph can be reduced to the snapshot holding under a specified time instance, we have given an XML representation of evo-graph called evoXML, and we have presented how interesting queries can be answered. In this paper, we explain how evo-graph is used to record the history of data and the structure of changes step by step, as the current snapshot evolves. We present C2D, a novel framework that implements the concepts in the paper using XML technologies. Finally, we experimentally evaluate C2D for space and time efficiency and discuss the results.