The way memory hierarchy has evolved in recent decades has opened new challenges in the development of indexing structures in general and spatial access methods in particular. In t...
Abstract. We have defined an XML structural index called the Structure Index Tree (SIT), which eliminates duplicate structures arising from the equivalent subtrees in an XML docume...
The major relational database systems have been providing XML support for several years, predominantly by mapping XML to existing concepts such as LOBs or (object-)relational tabl...
: XML DBMSs require new indexing techniques to efficiently process structural search and full-text search as integrated in XQuery. Much research has been done for indexing XML docu...
We present a system for efficient indexed querying of XML documents, enhanced with sibling operations. R-tree index proposed in [5] has a very high cost for the following-sibling...