Opasnet Base

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Citation of this page: Juha Villman, Einari Happonen, Jouni T. Tuomisto: Opasnet Base structure. Opasnet 2012. [1]. Accessed 23 Nov 2024.
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This page is about the Opasnet Base 2 -database.

Question

How to improve the existing Opasnet Base? Following issues of Opasnet Base 1 must be resolved:

• Opasnet Base 1 structure makes filtering by location very slow on big data
• Opasnet Base 1 structure is perhaps unnecessarily complex = queries are hard to adapt and read
• MySQL is not ideal for storing huge amounts of data, or at least this is how we assume?
• MySQL tables have fixed column types = difficult to store data objects with varying types of indices into one data table
• Multiple languages (localization) not supported

Answer

MySQL is good on relations but weak on dynamic big data. Let's keep the basic "scaffold" in MySQL and store the big data (locations and results) into noSQL-base. After few days of research the best candidate for noSQL-base seems to be MongoDB. Combining relational MySQL and non-relational MongoDB will be the foundation for the new Opasnet Base 2.

Table structure in the database

All tables

acts Uploads, updates, and other actions Field Type Null Extra Key id int(10) unsigned NO auto_increment PRI type ENUM('initial','replace','append') NO who varchar(50) NO comments varchar(250) YES time timestamp NO temp_id int(10) unsigned NO MUL lang char(3) NO ISO 639-2, default:'eng'	acts_locs Locations of an act Field Type Null Extra Key actobj_id int(10) unsigned NO PRI loc_id int(10) unsigned NO PRI	acts_objs Acts of an objects Field Type Null Extra Key id int(10) unsigned NO auto_increment PRI act_id int(10) unsigned NO MUL obj_id int(10) unsigned NO MUL dat_id int(10) unsigned NO MUL unit varchar(64) YES
objs Object information (all objects) Field Type Null Extra Key id int(10) unsigned NO auto_increment PRI ident varchar(20) NO UNI name varchar(200) NO type ENUM('variable','study','method','assessment','class','nugget','encyclopedia') NO page int(10) unsigned NO wiki_id tinyint(3) unsigned NO	inds Indices Field Type Null Extra Key id int(10) unsigned NO auto_increment PRI act_id int(10) unsigned NO ident varchar(20) NO UNI type ENUM('entity','number','time') NO name varchar(200) NO page int(10) unsigned NO wiki_id tinyint(3) unsigned NO	locs Location information Field Type Null Extra Key id int(10) unsigned NO auto_increment PRI ind_id int(10) unsigned NO MUL location varchar(100) NO description varchar(150) NO
	wikis Wiki information Field Type Null Extra Key id tinyint(3) NO PRI url varchar(255) NO wname varchar(20) NO

See also

• Opasnet structure
• Open assessment