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Teiid Designer, is a visual tool that enables rapid, model-driven definition, integration, management and testing of data services without programming using the Teiid runtime engine. It is capable of modeling several different kinds of data structures, but the most common and widely-used are relational models that describe a relational database schema, including the catalogs/schemas, tables, views, columns, primary keys, foreign keys, indexes, procedures, procedure results, procedure results, and logical relationships. Teiid Designer can reverse-engineer a relational model from a JDBC relational database or DDL file. It can also define "virtual" models that are transformations of other models (where the transformations are defined in terms of SQL select, insert, update, and delete statements). These models can then be packaged into a virtual database, which can be deployed to a Teiid runtime engine.

Teiid is a high-performance database virtualization engine that allows JDBC and ODBC client applications access the virtual database as if it were a real database, using relational, XML, XQuery and procedural queries. Teiid dynamically (and in real-time) figures out how to answer the queries and operations issued by clients by efficiently accessing and manipulating the data inside the underlying data sources. Teiid's sophisticated engine is able to plan and optimize these operations, even when multiple heterogeneous relational and non-relational data sources must be accessed to obtain the required information.


The VdbSequencer has no properties for changing behavior.

UUIDs and ReferencesA Teiid virtual database file is entirely self-contained: it contains all of the models required for the VDB. No model can contain references to objects outside of these models, so the entire VDB archive is consistent and complete. When the sequencer extracts the relational information from these models, it automatically resolves all references. Also, the resulting content is independent of any the content from all other previous sequencing operations, including that of the Teiid Model Sequencer.

Node TypesThe VDB sequencer follows JCR best-practices by defining all nodes to have a primary type of "nt:unstructured" (or a node type that extends "nt:unstructured"), meaning it's possible and valid for any node to have any property (with single or multiple values). However, it is still useful to capture the metadata about what that node represents, and so the sequencer use mixins for this.

The VDB sequencer reuses all of the model node types from the Teiid Model Sequencer, plus several new node types that are used for the VDB-specific metadata, as described below. Note that these are non-normative definitions of the node types; see the CND files in the "modeshape-sequencer-teiid" JAR file (or source) for the official definitions.

VDB NamespaceThe compact node definitions for the "vdb" namespace are as follows:

ConfigurationTo use this sequencer, simply include the modeshape-sequencer-teiid-2.7.0.Final.jar file in your application and define a sequencing configuration in the ModeShape configuration, using something similar to:

or using the JcrConfiguration:

ExampleHere is a representation of the nodes output by the sequencing of an example "qe.2.vdb" virtual database:

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