On supporting containment queries in relational database management systems
SIGMOD '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Accelerating XPath location steps
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Holistic twig joins: optimal XML pattern matching
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Maintaining order in a linked list
STOC '82 Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Structural Joins: A Primitive for Efficient XML Query Pattern Matching
ICDE '02 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering
RPE query processing and optimization techniques for XML databases
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
On boosting holism in XML twig pattern matching using structural indexing techniques
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Lazy XML updates: laziness as a virtue, of update and structural join efficiency
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
From region encoding to extended dewey: on efficient processing of XML twig pattern matching
VLDB '05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases
Accomplishing deterministic XML query optimization
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Efficient structural joins on indexed XML documents
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
Holistic twig joins on indexed XML documents
VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
Staircase join: teach a relational DBMS to watch its (axis) steps
VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
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The processing of XML queries can result in evaluation of various structural relationships. Efficient algorithms for evaluating ancestor-descendant and parent-child relationships have been proposed. Whereas the problems of evaluating preceding-sibling-following-sibling and preceding-following relationships are still open. In this paper, we studied the structural join and staircase join for sibling relationship. First, the idea of how to filter out and minimize unnecessary reads of elements using parent's structural information is introduced, which can be used to accelerate structural joins of parent-child and preceding-sibling-following-sibling relationships. Second, two efficient structural join algorithms of sibling relationship are proposed. These algorithms lead to optimal join performance: nodes that do not participate in the join can be judged beforehand and then skipped using B+-tree index. Besides, each element list joined is scanned sequentially once at most. Furthermore, output of join results is sorted in document order. We also discussed the staircase join algorithm for sibling axes. Studies show that, staircase join for sibling axes is close to the structural join for sibling axes and shares the same characteristic of high efficiency. Our experimental results not only demonstrate the effectiveness of our optimizing techniques for sibling axes, but also validate the efficiency of our algorithms. As far as we know, this is the first work addressing this problem specially.