INode*: an effective approach for storing XML using relational database

  • Authors:
  • Hoi Kit Lau;Vincent Ng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.;Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

With the increasing amount of XML used in web applications forrepresenting and exchanging information, researchers have proposeddifferent methods of using relational database to store and manageXML data. The model-mapping methods do not require DTD so thatfixed database schemas can be used. In this paper, we present a newmodel-mapping method called INode*. This method is based on anumbering scheme for mapping XML data into relational databases. Itenables quick retrieval of ancestor-descendant relationshipsbetween elements in XML by simple calculations. Experiments showthat INode* can reduce the storage requirement while having abetter query performance in comparison to several othermodel-mapping methods.