Exploring Performance Issues for a Clinical Database Organized Using an Entity-Attribute-Value Representation
Author(s) -
Rushan Chen,
P. Nadkarni,
Luis Marenco,
Frances R. Levin,
Joseph Erdos,
Perry L. Miller
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070475
Subject(s) - computer science , schema (genetic algorithms) , database design , database schema , representation (politics) , information retrieval , relational database , database model , database , data mining , politics , political science , law
The entity-attribute-value representation with classes and relationships (EAV/CR) provides a flexible and simple database schema to store heterogeneous biomedical data. In certain circumstances, however, the EAV/CR model is known to retrieve data less efficiently than conventionally based database schemas.
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