Semantic data integration and querying: a survey and challenges

Abstract

Digital revolution produces massive, heterogeneous and isolated data. These latter remain underutilized, unsuitable for integrated querying and knowledge discovering. Hence the importance of this survey on data integration which identifies challenging issues and trends. First, an overview of the different generations and basics of data integration is given. Then, semantic data integration is focused, since it semantically links data allowing wider insights and decision-making. More than thirty works are reviewed. The goal is to help analysts to identify relevant criteria to compare then choose among semantic data integration approaches, focusing on the category (materialized, virtual or hybrid) and querying techniques.