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ViMDQL: An Easy-to-Use Drag-and-Drop Visual Query Composer for Multidimensional Data

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DOI: 10.23977/jwsa.2017.11004 | Downloads: 21 | Views: 6065

Author(s)

Bing Fang 1, Sheng Liang 1

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1 College of Mathematics and Information Science, Guiyang University, Guiyang, China

Corresponding Author

Sheng Liang

ABSTRACT

In this study, we present ViMDQL, a useful system to tack the challenge of composing multidimensional data based analytical queries easily. Currently, fundamental query blocks such as import and export, create, retrieve, update, delete are supported, which can be used to loading and exporting data, creating, retrieving, updating, join, sampling and removing multidimensional data. Analytic functionalities such as aggregation, statistics are also supported. We demonstrated that, since ViMDQL make users can express their query intent by drag and drop to link query blocks together, which enable users can easily compose queries like the Stacker Game, it has been proved to be a productivity tool for graphically building multidimensional data based queries.

KEYWORDS

Query Composer, Multidimensional Data, Visual Query Builder

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Sheng, L. , Bing, F. (2017) ViMDQL: An Easy-to-Use Drag-and-Drop Visual Query Composer for Multidimensional Data. Journal of Web Systems and Applications (2017) 1: 20-24.

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