Fall 2006 Database Seminar

Wednesday November 1st, 2006
CSE Room 305
12:00 - 1:00 PM

The Morpheus Data Transformation Project

Dev Oliver

The Morpheus project is aimed at simplifying the transformation component of ETL making it easy to build, find and reuse transformation between disparate data types. Our data transformation tool is called Morpheus TCT (Transformation Construction Toolkit) and provides the following components and capabilities:

  • A graphical scripting facility that allows composition of transform building blocks from simple primitives (e.g., computation, control, table lookup, byte rearranger). It also facilitates the composition of more complex transforms out of existing (simple) ones.
  • A repository in which to store transformations and associated data types
  • A sophisticated browsing facility that allows a user to discover transforms similar or identical to the one he needs, and then modify them to meet his needs.
  • A scaleable execution environment for performing the actual data transformations.

Immediately following the talk we will show a brief demonstration of the proof-of-concept prototype system we have developed so far. This is a collaborative project between database researchers at MIT and UF. The current team members are Pete Dobbins, Christan Grant, Joachim Hammer, Dev Oliver, Malachi Jones and Jungmin Shin from UF and Tiffany Dohzen, Mujde Pamuk and Mike Stonebraker from MIT.

 

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