Abstract— Defining suitable indexes is a major task when optimizing a database. Usually, a human database administrator defines a set of indexes in the design phase of the data...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
— Autonomous index management in native XML DBMSs has to address XML’s flexibility and storage mapping features, which provide a rich set of indexing options. Change of worklo...
XML database systems are expected to handle increasingly complex queries over increasingly large and highly structured XML databases. An important problem that needs to be solved ...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
Today, more and more enterprises process XML data, many of them already in XML database systems. Once systems start to grow in size, scalability becomes an issue. One of the core o...