User-oriented smart-cache for the Web
Zoé Lacroix, Arnaud Sahuguet, Raman Chandrasekar · 1998
Standard database approaches to querying information on the Web focus on the source(s) and provide a query language based on a given predefined organization (schema) of the data: this is the source-driven approach. However, can the Web be seen as a standard database? There is no super-user in charge of monitoring the source(s) (the data is constantly updated), there is no homogeneous structure (no common explicit structure thus), the Web itself never stops growing, etc. For these reasons, we believe that the source-driven standard approach is not suitable to the Web.