Data Discovery and Query Builder (DDQB) is a data abstraction technology, developed by
IBM, that allows users to retrieve information from a data warehouse, in terms of the user's specific area of expertise instead of SQL.
DDQB serves the user through a web based graphical user interface and configurable data abstraction model (DAM), which contains both an understanding of the user knowledge domain and the database below it.
DDQB uses a set of
Eclipse
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-based customization tooling and can be deployed as a set of
Web Services.
See also
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Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis and management of business information. Common functions of business intelligence technologies include reporting, online analytical pr ...
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Ad hoc query
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Full text search
In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts r ...
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Unstructured information
Unstructured data (or unstructured information) is information that either does not have a pre-defined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner. Unstructured information is typically text-heavy, but may contain data such as dates, num ...
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Data access
Data access is a generic term referring to a process which has both an IT-specific meaning and other connotations involving access rights in a broader legal and/or political sense. In the former it typically refers to software and activities relat ...
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Information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...
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Information science
Information science (also known as information studies) is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, Categorization, classification, manipulation, storage, information retrieval, retrieval, movement, dissemin ...
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Web Services
External links
Data Virtualization through IBM and Mayo Clinic Collaboration
Related Papers
W.A. de Landgraaf, Data grids in theory and practice, 2008
Data analysis software
IBM software