A Model to Compare Web Database and Search Engine

Abstract

Web databases are the predominant and current evolution of the various database architectures and support the ACID and BASE theorems as well as relational algebra and calculus. Search engines are the most recent implementation of the theories behind information retrieval, and in addition to structured data existing in web databases, which make up the generality of data available on the Internet, in addition to searching for structured data, are capable of querying unstructured data available in heterogeneous form on either web databases or present in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents, and there exists an intersect between them. The report is based on literature regarding both aspects of Information Systems. It is tailored for a Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats analysis of the existing literature on both topics while laying the theoretical framework for further practical work. The report uses an exploratory and analytical methodology for assessing web databases and search engines