” INF 551 Spring 2020
Project Description
Keyword-Driven Exploration of Relational Data Using Firebase
The goal of this project is to import data from MySQL to Firebase and develop a keyword-driven
interface to explore the data via their foreign-key relationships. As a motivating example, consider a
MySQL database enrollment with tables: students, courses, and take, as shown below.
The project consists of the following tasks.
1. Develop a Python program import.py that imports the data from a MySQL database to a
Firebase realtime database.
Execution format: python import.py mysql-database-name firebase-database-nodename
For example, import.py enrollment enrollment will connect to a MySQL database
enrollment, transform and store its data in httpss://your-firebase-databaseurl/enrollment.
2. Develop a Web browser based user interface or mobile app that allows users to explore the
content of a relational database stored in Firebase. Specific requirements are as follows.
The interface should have a search box that allows users to enter keywords. It should
tokenize the search query and return users the tuples of tables that contain at least one
keyword in the query. The tuples may come from different tables and should be ordered
by the number of keywords appearing in the tuple. Note that it is possible that different
keywords appear in the values of different attributes in a tuple. In this case, the tuple
should be ranked after the tuple which contains all keywords in the same attribute (or a
smaller number of attributes). The search should be case-insensitive.
For example, for the query john science, the tuple for student 100 will be
ranked higher (since it contains both keywords: one in name attribute; the other
program) than the tuple for students 200 (which contains only one keyword).
It should allow users to continuously navigate from returned/current tuples to other
tuples through the foreign key relationships. For example, the tuple for student 100
would have a link on its id value (100) and when user clicks on it, he/she will be
presented with tuples in the take table whose sid are 100; or vice versa (that is,
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there should be a link from sid of take to id of students on the corresponding value). If
users click on cid value inf551, they will be presented with the courses tuple for
inf551 (i.e., first row in the talble).
In other words, imagine an expanding graph that starts with search results (tuples that
contain the keywords) and grows to include more and more related tuples when users
follow the hyperlink between tuples that capture their FKs or referential relationships.
Additional requirements are:
INF 551作业 写作、Data课程作业 辅导、SQL语言作业 写作、SQL编程设计作业调试There should be no more than two persons in a project group (individual project is ok).
You need to structure the data in Firebase in such a way that allows efficient processing of
queries. For example, you need to build index for efficient keyword search of tuples.
You are required to test and show your app using at least three databases: two will be chosen
by yourself and the third will be provided to you. Each database should have at least 3 tables
and at least two foreign key relationships.
You should not download the entire database into the browser and app and implement the
search and navigation using the local data. Instead, it should send requests to Firebase server
to retrieve only the data necessary to complete the search or navigation.
For the evaluation purpose, report the amount of data (communication overhead) retrieved
from the server on every request (search or navigation).
The project consists of 3 phases: proposal, midterm report, final report demo. The total point of the
project is 100, broken down as follows.
Proposal: 10 points
Midterm report: 10 points
Final report: 20 points
Demo: 10 points
Project implementation system performance: 50 points
Proposal (1-2 pages):
Your proposal should include the following content. Please also prepare 1-3 slides for a short
presentation (1-2 minutes) of your project idea. All members should be present.
Two databases you choose, including some example data.
Initial design of your app/interface. How do you plan to implement the features?
Group formation: who are in your group? What will be each members responsibility? Is your
group equipped to implement the application by the end of the semester?
Milestones: a project timeline with milestones. (no need to present this, but include it in your
proposal report).
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Midterm progress report (1-2 pages):
Provide a checklist showing the items in your timeline and the status on each time (complete,
on-going, etc.).
Provide a screenshot of the components you have completed.
Are you on track to achieve your milestones?
Any challenges you have encountered? Any helps that you will need?
Any other things you think should be reported in the midterm?
Final report (5-10 pages):
It should be a comprehensive report. You may include the contents from your proposal and midterm
report, with changes to reflect the final implementation of your project. The final report should have
the following parts.
Project idea.
Screenshot for each working component with a description.
Implementation details.
Performance analysis on query processing exploration process.
Responsibility and work of each group member.
Final Demo:
Demo of your app (10-minute) will be done in the last week.
Show the working of each component of your system.
All group members should be present at the presentations.
Deliverables:
Your phase final reports and project codes.
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