MemBeR: a micro-benchmark repository for XQuery

  • Authors:
  • Loredana Afanasiev;Ioana Manolescu;Philippe Michiels

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;INRIA Futurs & LRI, France;University of Antwerp, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • XSym'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Database and XML Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

XQuery is a feature-rich language with complex semantics. This makes it hard to come up with a benchmark suite which covers all performance-critical features of the language, and at the same time allows one to individually validate XQuery evaluation techniques. This paper presents MemBeR, a micro-benchmark repository, allowing the evaluation of an XQuery implementation with respect to precise evaluation techniques. We take the view that a fixed set of queries is probably insufficient to allow testing for various performance aspects, thus, the users of the repository must be able to add new data sets and/or queries for specific performance assessment tasks. We present our methodology for constructing the micro-benchmark repository, and illustrate with some sample micro-benchmarks.