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Database systems provide a set of known native data-types to define information like date, integer, string and long, in addition to validation and data integrity rules for this information. When there is a need to apply complex business logic, the application has to implement its own logic subsystem.

Kemetex information model defines the object as set of attributes each one with a data type from a set of ready made and extensible data types. For example a distance field in database systems is an integer value. In our schema, a distance field knows the value, the unit of measurement, direction, and more; thus a distance field is a customized data type in itself. More logic can be applied to it than can otherwise be done with standard database types.