Efficient Complex Query Support for Multiversion XML Documents

  • Authors:

  • Shu-Yao Chien;Vassilis J. Tsotras;Carlo Zaniolo;Donghui Zhang

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EDBT '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents a critical requirement for many applications. Also, there has been much recent interest in supporting complex queries on XML data (e.g., regular path expressions, structural projections, DIFF queries). In this paper, we examine the problem of supporting efficiently complex queries on multiversioned XML documents. Our approach relies on a scheme based on durable node numbers (DNNs) that preserve the order among the XML tree nodes and are invariant with respect to updates. Using the document's DNNs various complex queries are reduced to combinations of partial version retrieval queries. We examine three indexing schemes to efficiently evaluate partial version retrieval queries in this environment. A thorough performance analysis is then presented to reveal the advantages of each scheme.