Authors: Jingbo Zhou, Y. C. Tay, Zhifeng Bao
Tags: 2013, conceptual modeling
sonSQL is a MySQL variant that aims to be the default database system for social network data. It uses a conceptual schema called sonSchema to translate a social network design into logical tables. This paper introduces sonSchema, shows how it can be instantiated, and illustrates social network analysis for sonSchema datasets. Experiments show such SQL-based analysis brings insight into community evolution, cluster discovery and action propagation.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_18
