A Graph-based Approach to Manage CAE Data in a Data Lake

Abstract Computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications generate vast quantities of heterogeneous data. Domain experts often fail to explore and analyze these data, because they are not integrated across different applications. Existing data management solutions are rather tailored to scientific applications. In our approach, we tackle this issue by combining a data lake solution with graph-based metadata management. This provides a holistic view of all CAE data and of the data-generating applications in one interconnected structure. Based on a prototypical implementation, we discuss how this eases the task of domain experts to explore and extract data for further analyses.