Blockchain technology has gained popularity as a decentralized, tamper-proof, and verifiable data structure. Apart from financial transactions and assets management, there is also a growing interest in using it as a backbone for metadata management systems. Metadata systems aim to facilitate the organization of big data and provide users with a comprehensive interface for data discovery and navigation. However, the fundamental design of the blockchain has limitations in data querying and visualization that result in poor user experience. On the other side, graph databases are widely adapted for building user-friendly metadata systems with efficient relationship discovery capabilities. In our paper, we attempt to preserve the benefits of both types of systems through the integration of blockchain and property graph technologies. First, we formalize the structures used for metadata storage and a metadata conceptual model. Second, we provide the algorithms for mapping the (meta)data from the blockchain to the property graph model. And third, we show a prototype implementation of the integrated system to validate our proposal.

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Verifiable and Friendly Metadata Management: Formal Blockchain to Property Graph Mapping

  • Anton Dolhopolov,
  • Arnaud Castelltort,
  • Anne Laurent

摘要

Blockchain technology has gained popularity as a decentralized, tamper-proof, and verifiable data structure. Apart from financial transactions and assets management, there is also a growing interest in using it as a backbone for metadata management systems. Metadata systems aim to facilitate the organization of big data and provide users with a comprehensive interface for data discovery and navigation. However, the fundamental design of the blockchain has limitations in data querying and visualization that result in poor user experience. On the other side, graph databases are widely adapted for building user-friendly metadata systems with efficient relationship discovery capabilities. In our paper, we attempt to preserve the benefits of both types of systems through the integration of blockchain and property graph technologies. First, we formalize the structures used for metadata storage and a metadata conceptual model. Second, we provide the algorithms for mapping the (meta)data from the blockchain to the property graph model. And third, we show a prototype implementation of the integrated system to validate our proposal.