N-ary to Binary Query Tree Translation for Database Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Relational database management systems face compatibility issues when retrieving data from external platforms due to differing data formats and communication protocols, leading to challenges in transmitting and processing user input queries and query responses.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that translate user input queries from an n-ary tree format to a binary tree format compatible with external data storage systems, and vice versa, using a data provider to facilitate communication between relational database management systems and external data storage elements, ensuring data compatibility and effective query operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the relational database management system uses its native n-ary tree format for query operations, then query processing efficiency is improved, but compatibility with external data storage systems using binary tree format deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a format converter that acts as an intermediary between the relational database management system and external data storage systems. This converter translates queries from n-ary tree format to binary tree format and translates responses back, enabling compatibility without requiring the RDBMS to change its internal query processing architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If data is stored in external platforms with different data formats, then data source versatility is improved, but data transmission compatibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The format converter serves as a mediator that ensures reliable data transmission between the RDBMS and external storage systems with different formats. It handles the conversion of both query requests and response data, maintaining data integrity and compatibility across different storage formats.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the format parameter of data during transmission. The format converter transforms data between n-ary tree format (used by the RDBMS) and binary tree format (used by external systems), allowing the same data to be compatible with different storage platforms by changing its structural representation.
3Reliability
If protocol compatibility is maintained between different systems, then communication reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The format converter is a dedicated intermediary component that handles protocol translation between the RDBMS and external data storage systems. By centralizing the translation functionality in a separate converter module, the core RDBMS architecture remains unchanged while achieving reliable communication with external systems.
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AI summary
A method for obtaining query response data by a relational database management system (RDBMS) is provided. The method receives a user input query, by a processor associated with the RDBMS, wherein the user input query comprises a query request for a set of data; formats the user input query into a second query language suitable for communication between the RDBMS and a query response interface associated with a second data storage external to the RDBMS, by the processor, to generate a reformatted user input query, wherein the RDBMS is configured to perform query operations using an n-ary tree format, and wherein the query response interface is configured to perform query operations using a binary tree format consisting of two child nodes per non-terminal node of a binary tree; and transmits the reformatted user input query to the query response interface, via a communication device communicatively coupled to the processor.