6.4. Data Integration Guidelines
Recall that enterprise data may be kept in various types of data stores, including relational databases, non-relational databases, directory servers, and so forth. Some common strategies that help to integrate data from these different types of data stores are data mapping, data transformation, and data filtering.
6.4.1. Data Mapping in EAI Applications
Enterprises use various types of data stores to hold data, and each such data store persists the data according to its own layout and using its own data types. This is true even within a single enterprise. Thus, there are many varied external representations of data. Often, external data representations are relational in nature because most commonly data is stored ...
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