Extending path summary and region encoding for efficient structural query processing in native XML databases

  • Authors:
  • Su-Cheng Haw;Chien-Sing Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Information Technology, Multimedia University 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia;Faculty of Information Technology, Multimedia University 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Optimizing query processing is always a challenging task in the XML database community. Current state-of-the-art approaches focus mainly on simple query. Yet, as the usage of XML shifts towards the data-oriented paradigm, more and more complex query processing needs to be supported. In this paper, we present TwigX-Guide, a hybrid system, which takes advantage of the beautiful features of path summary in DataGuide and region encoding in TwigStack to improve complex query processing. Experimental results indicate that TwigX-Guide can process complex queries on an average 38% better than the TwigStack algorithm, 31% better than TwigINLAB, 11% better than TwigStackList and about 9% better than TwigStackXB in terms of execution time.