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Neo4EMF, A Scalable Persistence Layer for EMF Models

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Amine Benelallam,

David LaunayAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications - Volume 8569

Pages 230 - 241

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09195-2_15

Published: 21 July 2014 Publication History

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Several industrial contexts require software engineering methods and tools able to handle large-size artifacts. The central idea of abstraction makes model-driven engineering (MDE) a promising approach in such contexts, but current tools do not scale to very large models (VLMs): already the task of storing and accessing VLMs from a persisting support is currently inefficient. In this paper we propose a scalable persistence layer for the de-facto standard MDE framework EMF. The layer exploits the efficiency of graph databases in storing and accessing graph structures, as EMF models are. A preliminary experimentation shows that typical queries in reverse-engineering EMF models have good performance on such persistence layer, compared to file-based backends.

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Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications - Volume 8569

July 2014

266 pages

ISBN:9783319091945

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Computer Science Department, AtlanMod team (Inria, Mines Nantes, LINA), École des Mines de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 3, France
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IBM Research, Haifa University Campus, Haifa, Israel

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