Business intelligence on complex graph data

  • Authors:
  • Dritan Bleco;Yannis Kotidis

  • Affiliations:
  • Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece;Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 Joint EDBT/ICDT Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Advances in the Internet of Things will provide massive amounts of context-aware information that would need to be ingested and understood by supporting IT infrastructures, influencing running processes that trigger actions. As a result, future Business Intelligence (BI) platforms would need to be able to process and analyze complex data. In this paper, we adapt a generic graph model that may be used to represent data in many applications of interest. We then show how analytical queries over these data can be naturally expressed via an OLAP-like aggregation framework we introduce. We describe how ad-hoc aggregations can be easily decomposed into smaller independent computations via a proper query rewriting mechanism. Our techniques provide the basis for selecting materialized views in order to expedite computation of frequent analytical queries in large datasets, enabling data warehousing of collections consisting of millions of graphs. Our experiments demonstrate the benefits of our methods.