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The Schema-IndependentDatabase UI
Eirik Bakke and Edward Benson
CIDR 2011
(a proposed holy grail and some suggestions)
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A Common Class of Business-Oriented Database Applications
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Record View
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Table view
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Switchboard
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Table viewRecord view
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”Switchboard”-applications
Switchboard
Rep
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Table viewRecord view
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In pop culture, too...
• (From the showreel of Mark Coleran, designer of fake movie UIs)
http://gizmodo.com/5418342/ridiculous-user-interfaces-in-film-and-the-man-who-designs-them
1.44
1.52
1.59
2.10
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Form-Based Professional Systems in Pop Culture...
From the Showreel of Mark Coleran,Designer of Fake Movie UIs
http://vimeo.com/1563485• 1.44 Record View• 1.52 Table View• 1.59 Record View• 2.10 Record View
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These applications exist chiefly
to provide a user interfacefor some
highly domain-specific database schema
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So what’s the problem?
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Really expensive to implement (or adopt) a new app for every new schema
support!
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Really expensive to implement (or adopt) a new app for every new schema
support!
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Really expensive to implement (or adopt) a new app for every new schema
support!
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So what can we do?
Build a better app builder(e.g., FORWARD/App2You, AppForge, Intuit QuickBase, FileMaker Bento, RoR)
Build a universal app(that lets you interact with any database regardless of schema)
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Proposed Grail:
A general-purpose data manipulation tool
to replace tailor-made database UIs once and for all
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Consider this successfulsingle table, single user ”database”
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Spreadsheets:
• General-purpose
• Extremely mature
• No builder: The data is the interface
Consider this successfulsingle table, single user ”database”
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Requirements for a Universal Database UI
• Edit both schema and data with spreadsheet-like ease
• Provide and expressive visual query language to create and dispose of complex views
• Support hierarchical views and flexible layouts
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• E.g. show me “a list of papers, each paper showing its authors and its reviewers” – supported for instance by App2You, AppForge.
• Intelligent layout management
Hierarchical Views
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Hierarchical Views
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Related WorksheetsCo-Developed with Paul Grogan and Yod Watanaprakornkul
demo
(To appear in CHI ’11)
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demo
(To appear in CHI ’11)
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Underlying Schema
Courses(Course, Distribution Area, Title, Max. Enrollment, May Audit)Readings(Course, Author Name, Title)Sections(Class Number, Course, Status, Max. Enrollment, Section)Meetings(Section Class Number, Day, Time, Place)Instructors(First Name, Last Name, Email)Grading Components(Course, Grading Category, Percentage)Instructors-Sections(Instructor Name, Section Class Number)Cross-Listings(Crosslisted Course Code, Primary Course Code)
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Underlying schema
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View Query: 12 joins
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Conclusion
• A great number of small organizations could use a relational database for their own highly domain-specific schema.
• Stop spending time and money writing a new app for every schema – invent a general-purpose one instead.
• Convert many small vertical markets into one big horizontal market.– Think Excel, not Access
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Q&A
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Backup Slides
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An infinite supply of schemas
perfectly obscure to the world at largebut
each of great value to a limited number of
people or organizations
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ArchitectureRelationalDatabase
(Bidirectional)Relational-to-XML
Mapping Layer
Automatic LayoutManager
+ Editing UI
Query Builder UI
Formatting UI
Note: ”XML” really means ”some hierarchical data model” (nested relations is another)
Relational Data
XMLSchema
XMLData
Form Query
SQL
Stylesheet
Grand Unified UI
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Contrast: Spreadsheets• General-purpose data management UI,
widely used for database-style tasks• Large range of streamlined facilities for
interacting with any data in a grid• Sadly, spreadsheets lack features
essential to any relational database UI– Joins, managing one-to-many/many-to-many relationships– No dynamic views– Non-tabular views and layouts– Need better scaling, multiuser support
• Great it your database is single-table, single-user
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Highly Domain-SpecificDatabase Applications
• Require large development efforts
• Have high training/support costs
• Put developers between data and users
• Seldom reach a high level of maturity
• Usually just a CRUD1 interface to some relational database
1 “Create, Read, Update, Delete”
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Related Work• General-purpose interfaces
– QBE
– VisiCalc (the spreadsheet)
– Polaris (Stolte et al. TVCG ’02)• Visual algebra for data visualization (pivot table-based)
• Application builders– FileMaker (‘82), 4D (‘84), Microsoft Access (‘92)
– AppForge (Yang et al. PVLDB ’08)• Includes a visual algebra for hierarchical view creation
– App2You (Kowalzcykowski et al., CIDR ’09)• Also supports hierarchical views
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App Builders
Desktop IDEs
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Spreadsheets vs.Database Builders (Access et. al.)
Spreadsheets• A mature, grand unified
idea for how to interact with data
• Limited strategies available for presenting data.
• Does not help you manage relationships between multiple tables of data
Access/FileMaker/etc.• Access to the full power
of relational databases
• Too technical interface• Often requires macro
programming• Requires you to design
and implement a new UI for every schema
Good
Bad
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Spreadsheets vs.Database Builders (Access et. al.)
Spreadsheets• A mature, grand unified
idea for how to interact with data
• Limited strategies available for presenting data.
• Does not help you manage relationships between multiple tables of data
Access/FileMaker/etc.• Access to the full power
of relational databases
• Too technical interface• Often requires macro
programming• Requires you to design
and implement a new UI for every schema
Good
Bad
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Spreadsheets vs.Database Builders (Access et. al.)
Spreadsheets• A mature, grand unified
idea for how to interact with data
• Limited strategies available for presenting data.
• Does not help you manage relationships between multiple tables of data
Access/FileMaker/etc.• Access to the full power
of relational databases
• Too technical interface• Often requires macro
programming• Requires you to design
and implement a new UI for every schema
Good
Bad
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If All Your GUI Ever Needed was Tables: