On the Quality of Relational Database Schemas in Open-source Software Fabien Coelho, Alexandre Aillos, Samuel Pilot, Shamil Valeev To cite this version: Fabien Coelho, Alexandre Aillos, Samuel Pilot, Shamil Valeev. On the Quality of Relational Database Schemas in Open-source Software. Journal on Advances in Software, 2012, Vol 4 (N°3 & 4), 11 p. hal-00742605 HAL Id: hal-00742605 https://hal-mines-paristech.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00742605 Submitted on 16 Oct 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. On the Quality of Relational Database Schemas in Open-source Software Fabien Coelho, Alexandre Aillos, Samuel Pilot, and Shamil Valeev CRI, Mathematiques´ et Systemes,` MINES ParisTech, 35, rue Saint Honore,´ 77305 Fontainebleau cedex, France.
[email protected],
[email protected] Abstract—The relational schemas of 512 open-source projects Free Software Foundation [4], which is now quite large [5][6] storing their data in MySQL or PostgreSQL databases are inves- and expanding [7] (Predicts 2010) to implement his principle tigated by querying the standard information schema, looking for of sharing software. Such free software is distributed under overall design issues.