Year: 2009
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Since XML (eXtensible Markup Language) (Bray, Paoli, Sperberg-McQueen, Maler & Yergeau, 2004) emerged as a standard for information representation and exchange, storing, indexing, and querying, XML documents have become major issues in database research. Query processing and optimization are very important in this context, and indices are data structures that help enhance performances substantially. Though XML indexing concepts are mainly inherited from relational databases, XML indices bear numerous specificities. The aim of this chapter is to present an overview of state-of-the-art XML indices and to discuss the main issues, trade-offs, and future trends in XML indexing. Furthermore, since XML is gaining importance for representing business data for analytics (Beyer, Chamberlin, Colby, Özcan, Pirahesh & Xu, 2005), we also present an index we developed specifically for XML data warehouses.
Source: IGI Global eBooks
Authors: Hadj Mahboubi, Jérôme Darmont
Institution: Université Lumière Lyon 2
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2498300058