The BEA streaming XQuery processor

Abstract This paper describes the design, implementation, and performance characteristics of a commercial XQuery processing engine, the BEA streaming XQuery processor. This XQuery engine was designed to provide high performance for message processing applications, i.e., for transforming XML data streams. The engine is a central component of the 8.1 release of BEA's WebLogic Integration (WLI) product. The BEA XQuery engine is fully compliant with the August 2002 draft of the W3C XML Query Language specification and we are currently porting it to the latest version of the XQuery language (November 2003). A goal of this paper is to describe how a fully compliant yet efficient XQuery engine has been built from a few relatively simple components and well-understood technologies.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Daniela Florescu, Chris Hillery, Donald Kossmann, Paul Lucas, Fabio Riccardi, Till Westmann, Michael J. Carey, Arvind Sundararajan
• Keywords: Bea Streaming Xquery, BEA XQuery Engine, Database, VLDB 2004, XQuery Processing Engine