XML query processing using views

  • Authors:
  • Caiyun Yao;Jiaheng Lu;Wei Wang;Xiaofang Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information, Renmin University of China, China;School of Information, Renmin University of China, China;School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia;School of Information, Renmin University of China, China and School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia

  • Venue:
  • WAIM'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Web-Age Information Management
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A fundamental problem in XML query processing is tree pattern query (TPQ) matching which computes all data instances in an XML database that match an input TPQ. More recently, there is growing attention on applying materialized views, which is an established and effective optimization technique in relational database systems, to TPQ matching. We study the query answering using views problem for tree pattern queries (QAV). The QAV problem is traditionally formulated in two ways: (i) find a maximal result, or (ii) find an equivalent result. For the former, there exists an idea of searching for a maximal contained rewriting, by applying some compensation to the result of view. Because not all the answers will be returned, some useful answers may be missing. Motivated by this, we study the latter one--finding an equivalent rewriting of tree pattern queries. We mainly focus on path query.