Automatic Schema Generation — TypeDB/Vaticle

Visual GUI development of a TypeDB database schema

Example Object-Role Model for a genomics database schema. Image by author.

TypeDB is part of a new breed of database management tools that utilises Hypergraph Theory to define the database schema and for operations over data in that database. In an earlier article I outlined the architecture of the product I produce, FactEngine, which also overlays a hypergraph schema over a database/s using Object-Role Modeling as the key schema definition language.

There are several advantages of using Object-Role Modeling as hypergraphs, none least of which is the ability to morph between competing but complimentary views over the database schema. For instance, you can view the database schema under the relational model of relational databases and as a property graph schema as under the graph database/property graph model, as below:

Morphing Conceptual Models. Image by author.

Schema Schmema — Talking about the same thing

Graph database proponents, as opposed hypergraph proponents, argue that there is something particularly special about graph databases and that is peculiar to dedicated graph databases. I argue that there is nothing peculiar…