Evaluating queries with generalized path expressions

  • Authors:
  • Vassilis Christophides;Sophie Cluet;Guido Moerkotte

  • Affiliations:
  • I.N.R.I.A., 78153 Le Chesnay, Cedex, France;I.N.R.I.A., 78153 Le Chesnay, Cedex, France;Lehrstuhl für Informatik III, Ahornstr, 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

In the past few years, query languages featuring generalized path expressions have been proposed. These languages allow the interrogation of both data and structure. They are powerful and essential for a number of applications. However, until now, their evaluation has relied on a rather naive and inefficient algorithm.In this paper, we extend an object algebra with two new operators and present some interesting rewriting techniques for queries featuring generalized path expressions. We also show how a query optimizer can integrate the new techniques.