A Join Index for XML Data Warehouses

XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decision-support applications that exploit complex data. However, native-XML database management systems (DBMSs) currently bear limited performances and it is necessary to research for ways to optimize them. In this paper, we propose a new join index that is specifically adapted to the multidimensional architecture of XML warehouses. It eliminates join operations while preserving the information contained in the original warehouse. A theoretical study and experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of our join index. They also show that native XML DBMSs can compete with XML-compatible, relational DBMSs when warehousing and analyzing XML data. Keywords XML data warehouses, performance, XML join index, XQuery.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Hadj Mahboubi, Kamel Aouiche, Jérôme Darmont
• Keywords: CORR 2008, Education, Join Index, XML Data, XML Data Warehouses