Melting Pot XML: Bringing File Systems and Databases One Step Closer

: Ever-growing data volumes demand for storage systems beyond current file systems abilities, particularly, a powerful querying capability. With the rise of XML, the database community has been challenged by semi-structured data processing, enhancing their field of activity. Since file systems are structured hierarchically they can be mapped to XML and as such stored in and queried by an XML-aware database. We provide an evaluation of a state-of-the-art XML-aware database implementing a file system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: BTW
• Authors: Alexander Holupirek, Christian Grün, Marc H. Scholl
• Keywords: BTW 2007, Ever-growing Data Volumes, Powerful Querying Capability, file System