Modern query optimizers select an efficient join ordering for a physical execution plan based essentially on the average join selectivity factors among the referenced tables. In ...
1 We propose a new framework for the summarization of XML document properties called EXsum (Element-wise XML summarization), which can capture statistical information of all import...
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
Sybase's flagship database product, Adaptive Server Enterprise provides Native XML processing (NXS) support. In this paper we present our experience related to query processi...
The ability to compute top-k matches to XML queries is gaining importance due to the increasing number of large XML repositories. The efficiency of top-k query evaluation relies o...