Providing Data Integrity in Graph Databases

Abstract

The profusion of the Internet in the daily lives of people and organizations has triggered the production of a highly connected mass data, which encourages the use of non-traditional database technologies. In this context, graph databases have been gaining notoriety, for having facilities regarding the modeling of complex data, as well as for providing better performance on query processing. On the other hand, as it is a relatively new technology, implementations of graph database management systems still lack mechanisms to deal with maintaining data integrity. In this sense, this work introduces a solution for providing integrity (eg, verification and maintenance) of the data stored in a graph database.