CHEMCONNECT is a data management system. CHEMCONNECT consists of several components, each with a very specific task based on the components characterization. In a sense there are three types of components:

• Data Components: These store the data and information within the data management framework. The component are differentiated by how the data is stored and retrieved efficiently. The retrieval process is governed by the how the component stores the data.There are basically two data components, the scalable noSQL database to store the catalog objects at the core of the database and a RDF framework to provide an efficient search mechanism of the catalog object and the objects within.
• Programming Components: These components of the framework perform the actual manipulations of the data. The overall architecture of CHEMCONNECT is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) within a client-server framework. The server component, written in JAVA, is the interface to the data models and is accesses through RESTful services. The ‘View’ interface is a GUI client (currently written in Angular).
• Ontology Components: CHEMCONNECT is a data driven MVC framework where the ontology is the basis for the ‘Model’. The ontology provides the ‘data’ that governs how all the components interact with each other. The ontology gives ‘meaning’ and structure to all the framework components and the data and procedural structures they contain.