RIMBAA: IBM RIMon Hypergenes

During the January 2010 WGM the RIMon product was presented. Below an excerpt from the minutes:

• RIMBAA Product presentation: RIMBAA Aspects of the DB2 PureXML database. Amnon Shabo (IBM) presents: "research effort developing a data warehouse (RIMon) that is based on the RIM". See http://www.ringholm.de/persist/20100118_RIMBAA_IBM_Hypergenes_BII.PDF for the presentation.
  • Core aspect: BII - Biomedical Information Infrastructure, contains general purpose data warehouse. Called RIMon (RIM based XML storage); querying supported by XQuery. Support export to datamarts using RDF definitions (datamart could be peristed in relational format).
  • Received v3 instances are RIMified (mapped to generic RIM classes); allows for creation of Rimified queries for decision support. Archived instances are "RIM ITS" (an in-company own version thereof) based, with preserved clone names.
  • Lesson learned: XQuery too complex for most researchers. Lead to the creation of datamarts.

See also:

• RIMon used with IHE QED profile