Oracle Database 23ai Data Modeling and Schema Design for JSON-Relational Duality

The Align > Refine > Design series covers conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling (schema design and patterns) for leading technologies, combining proven data modeling practices with database-specific features to produce better applications.

JSON-Relational Duality is a new concept that combines aspects of relational databases and document databases in one combined data model. Read Oracle Database 23ai Data Modeling and Schema Design for JSON-Relational Duality if you are a data professional who needs to expand your modeling skills to include Oracle 23ai JSON-Relational Duality or a technologist who works with either relational or document databases and want to learn how to benefit from combining both models.

We cover the three modeling characteristics of precise, minimal, and visual; the three model components of entities, relationships, and attributes (including keys); the three model levels of conceptual (align), logical (refine), and physical (design); and the three modeling perspectives of relational, dimensional, and query. Align is about agreeing on the common business vocabulary so everyone is aligned on terminology and general initiative scope. Refine is about capturing the business requirements. That is, refining our knowledge of the initiative to focus on what is essential. Design is about the technical requirements. That is, designing to accommodate our model’s unique software and hardware needs.

If you are interested in learning how to build multiple database solutions, read all the books in the Align > Refine > Design series. Since each book uses the same template, you can quickly skill up on additional database technologies.

About Beda
Beda Hammerschmidt studied computer science and later earned a PhD in indexing XML data. He joined Oracle as a software developer in 2006. He initiated the support for JSON in Oracle and is co-author of the SQL/JSON standard. Beda is currently managing groups supporting semi-structured data in Oracle (JSON, XML, Full Text, etc).

About Pascal
Pascal Desmarets is the founder and CEO of Hackolade (https://hackolade.com), a data modeling tool for NoSQL databases, storage formats, REST APIs, and JSON in RDBMS. He is a pioneer in Polyglot Data Modeling, i.e. data modeling for polyglot data persistence and data exchanges. He is an advocate of Metadata-as-Code to make business sense of technical data structures.

About Steve
Steve Hoberman’s first word was “data”. He has been a data modeler for over 30 years, and thousands of business and data professionals have completed his Data Modeling Master Class. Steve is the author of nine books on data modeling, including The Rosedata Stone and Data Modeling Made Simple. One of Steve’s frequent data modeling consulting assignments is to review data models using his Data Model Scorecard® technique.