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Question Paper Code :90248

M.C.A. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS, APRILMAY 2022.

Second Semester

MC 4202- ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGY

(Regulations 2021)
Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 marks
Answer ALL questions.
PART A-(10x 2= 20 marks)
1. Outline the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous distributed
database management systems.
2. Outline the motivations of replication in a distributed database environment.
3 Define a temporal database and a temporal relation.
4. Outline a nearest-neighbor query with an example.
5 What is MongoDB?
6. Present an outline of database sharding.
7 How XML data can be represented?
8 What does document type declaration of a document specify?
9 Present an outline of Web crawlers.
10. Name the two measures used to evaluate the effectiveness of an
retrieval system. information

PART B -(5x 13=65 marks)

11. (a) Name and outline the stages in distributed query
outline distributed query processing using semijoin. processing. Also,
(13)
Or
(b) ) Outline how the two phase commit protocol works in a
database management environment. distributed
(6)
(ii) Outline the two basic types of
fragmentation in a distributed
database environment. With an example.
(7)
12. (a) What is a database trigger? Elaborate the typesof triggers with example.
(13)
Or

(b) Outline the data management issues pertaining to mobile databases. (13)
13. (a) Explain the query operations in MongoDB with an example. (13)
Or

(b) (i) Present an outline of CAP theorem. (4)

(ii) What is Hive? Present an outline of the data types in Hive. (9)
14. (a) i) Name and brief the three main types of XML documents. (6)
(ii) Outline well-formed XML and valid XML with an example. (7)
Or

(b) Elaborate XPath and XQuery with an example. (13)

15. (a) Name and detail the types of queries in information retrieval systems
with an example. (13)
Or

(b) State and explain the commnonly used text preprocessing techniques that
are part of the text processing task. (13)
PART C-(1x 15 = 15marks)
16. (a) Presenta distributed database design for a Banking System". State the
functional requirements you are considering. (15)
Or

(b) Consider the following Non-temporal relation EMPLOYEE: (15)

EMPLOYEE (ENO, NME, DESIGNATION, BASIC_PAY, DEPT)
Modify the schema of the EMPLOYEE relation to incorporate time and
present the schema for the following types of temporal databases.
) Valid time database schema

(i1) Transaction time database schema

(ii) Bitemporal database schema.

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Question Paper Code : 10845

APRILMAY 2023.
M.C.A. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS,
Second Semester

TECHNOLOGY
MC 4202- ADVANCEDDATABASE
(Regulations 2021)
Maximum: 100 marks
Time:Three hours
Answer ALL questions.

PART A -(10x 2= 20 marks)

database.
1 State the minimum conditions to be satisfied for a Distributed

2. What are the drawbacks ofTwo Phase Protocol?

3 Differentiate Deferred consideration and Detached consideration.

Define Attribute Versioning.

5
List down the NOSQL characteristics related to data models and query
languages.

6 What are the three desirable properties of distributed systems with replicated
data?

7 Briefly describe about the three types of XML documents.

8 Indicate the meaning of these notations At,A*, A. used in specifying the

elements in XML.

9. List down the key differences between databases and IR systems.

10. What are the steps of process involved in searching relevant documents from
the Inverted Index, given a set of query terms?
 () BNplain n dotail bot Dintvibutod Coneurreney Control Bnned on (13)

() Diatinguahed (opy ot a Dntn ltem,

(6) Diatvibuted Conourreney Control Baned on Voting.

(b) () Write ahort notea on the following in dintributed databanen: (8)

() raneparency
(2) Availability and Reliability
(9) Sealability and

(4) Partition 'l'oleranee

(6) Autonomy

(i) Deacribe about Diatributed Query ProcosBing Using Semijoin (5)

1?. (n) () 1Nplain about Incorporating Time in Relational DatabaBes Using

(8)
"uple Voraioning.

(ii) Write ahort notes on Multimedia databases, (5)

Or

(b) () Explain how indexing can bo done in spatinl databases. (7)

(ii) Explain about location and handoff management in Mobile

databases, (6)

13. (a) Explain MongoDB Data Model and MongoDB CRUD Operations Under
Document-Based NOSQL Systems. (13)

Or

(b) Write short notes on the following: (13)

() Cassandra Query Language

(i) HiveQuery Language

(ii) Orient DB Features

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 14. (a) (i) Explain about the XML Hierarchical Data Model. (8)

(ii) Write short notes on Specifying Path Expressions in XML. (5)

Or

(b) (1) Explain about the approaches for organizing the contents of XML
documents to facilitate their subsequent querying and retrieval. (7)

() Write short notes on Specifying Queries in XML with XQuery. (6)

15. (a) (i) Explain the following types of queries in IR: (8)

(1) Boolean Queries

(2) Phrase Queries

(3) Proximity Queries

(4) Wildcard Queries

(i1) Write short notes on Analyzing the Link Structure of Web Pages. (5)
Or

(b) Write short notes on Information Retrieval Models: (13)

Boolean Model

(ü) Vector Space Model

(iüi) Probabilistic Model

(iv) Semantic Model

PART C -(1x 15 =15 marks)

16. (a) ) Examine and find out the appropriate spatial queries that require
the use of spatial operations to perform the following operations: (7)
(1) To find all ambulances within afive mile radius of an accident
location

(2) To find five closest ambulances to an accident location

(3) To fnd allhomes that are within two miles ofa lake
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 (ii) Investigate the role of IR in the following: (8)

(1) Social Search

(2) Conversational Information Access

(3) Probabilistie Topic Modeling

(4) Question Answering Systems

Or

(b) Consider COMPANY database with the following fields: (15)

Department, Employee, Project, Address, worker, Dependent
Illustrate the features of XML schema in a step-by-step manner
referring to
The XML schema document corresponding to the database

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