Data Discovery and Query Builder (DDQB) is a data abstraction technology, developed by IBM

IBM

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, 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

Eclipse (software)

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-based customization tooling and can be deployed as a set of Web Services.

See also

• Business Intelligence
  Business intelligence
  Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
  
  
• Ad hoc query
  Ad hoc
  Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning "for this". It generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted to other purposes. Compare A priori....
  
  
• Full text search
  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...
  
  
• Unstructured information
• Data access
  Data access
  Data access typically refers to software and activities related to storing, retrieving, or acting on data housed in a database or other repository...
  
  
• Information retrieval
  Information retrieval
  Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
  
  
• Information Science
  Information science
  -Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...
  
  
• Web Services

External links

• Data Virtualization through IBM and Mayo Clinic Collaboration

Related Papers

• Nicky Hekster, Henry Bal, Data grids in theory and practice, 2008