SURVEY BASED ON AN APPROACH TO RETRIEVE LOGICAL SCHEMA FROM SHOPPING CART DATABASE

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

In this paper, we present an approach to retrieve logical schema from shopping cart database systems. In general, an e-commerce system is built by following one of two approaches. The first approach is the customization approach using a suite of tools such as IBM’s Web Sphere Commerce Suite. For example, the Commerce Suite provides tools for creating the infrastructure of a virtual shopping mall, including catalog templates, registration, shopping cart, order and payment processing, and a generalized database. The second approach is the bottom-up development of a system in-house by experts of an individual company. In this case, the developer is manually building a virtual shopping mall with mix-and-match tools. In addition, a database supporting the business model of the e-commerce system must be manually developed. Whether a developer is using the customization or the bottom-up approach, understanding the structure of e-commerce database systems will help the database designers effectively develop and maintain the system.

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