In this paper, we describe the TIMBER XML database system implemented at University of Michigan. TIMBER was one of the first native XML database systems, designed from the ground ...
An increasing percentage of the data needed by business applications is being generated in XML format. Storing the XML in its native format will facilitate new applications that e...
Alan Halverson, Vanja Josifovski, Guy M. Lohman, H...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
Many systems such as Tukwila and YFilter combine automaton and algebra techniques to process queries over tokenized XML streams. Typically in this architecture, an automaton is fi...
Abstract. Estimating the sizes of query results, and intermediate results, is crucial to many aspects of query processing. In particular, it is necessary for effective query optimi...