Authors: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau, Qing Cao
Tags: 2011, conceptual modeling
Data modeling is the sine quo non of systems development and one of the most widely researched topics in the database literature. In the past three decades, semantic data modeling has emerged as an alternative to traditionalrelationalmodeling.Themajority ofthe research in datamodeling suggeststhatthe use ofsemantic data models leads to better performance; however, the findings are not conclusive and are sometimes inconsistent. The discrepancies that exist in the data modeling literature and the relatively low statistical power in the studies make meta-analysis a viable choice in analyzing and integrating the findings of these studiesRead the full paper here: https://www.igi-global.com/journal/journal-database-management
