With XQuery becoming the standard language for querying XML, and the relational SQL platform being recognized as an important platform to store and process XML, the SQL/XML standa...
We give an overview on how XQuery processing works in our native XML database system Natix. After a brief description of the query compiler we focus on the aspect of join ordering...
Norman May, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Gui...
Abstract. In this paper we propose a new approach to XML benchmarking – a flexible XML query benchmark called FlexBench. The flexibility is given by two aspects. Firstly, FlexB...
The emergence of database languages with side effects, notably for XML, raises significant challenges for database compilers and optimizers. In this paper, we extend an algebra fo...
This paper describes a new XML compression scheme that offers both high compression ratios and short query response time. Its core is a fully reversible transform featuring substit...