摘要
Incomplete data accompanies our life processes and covers almost all fields of scientific studies, as a result of delivery failure, no power of battery, accidental loss, etc. However, how to model, index, and query incomplete data in- curs big challenges. For example, the queries struggling with incomplete data usually have dissatisfying query results due to the improper incompleteness handling methods. In this pa- per, we systematically review the management of incomplete data, including modelling, indexing, querying, and handling methods in terms of incomplete data. We also overview sev- eral application scenarios of incomplete data, and summa- rize the existing systems related to incomplete data. It is our hope that this survey could provide insights to the database community on how incomplete data is managed, and inspire database researchers to develop more advanced processing techniques and tools to cope with the issues resulting from incomplete data in the real world.
Incomplete data accompanies our life processes and covers almost all fields of scientific studies, as a result of delivery failure, no power of battery, accidental loss, etc. However, how to model, index, and query incomplete data in- curs big challenges. For example, the queries struggling with incomplete data usually have dissatisfying query results due to the improper incompleteness handling methods. In this pa- per, we systematically review the management of incomplete data, including modelling, indexing, querying, and handling methods in terms of incomplete data. We also overview sev- eral application scenarios of incomplete data, and summa- rize the existing systems related to incomplete data. It is our hope that this survey could provide insights to the database community on how incomplete data is managed, and inspire database researchers to develop more advanced processing techniques and tools to cope with the issues resulting from incomplete data in the real world.
