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International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems

DNIS 2002: Databases in Networked Information Systems pp 268–284Cite as

An Experimental Study on Query Processing Efficiency of Native-XML and XML-enabled Database Systems

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With XML becoming a standard for representing semi-structured documents on the web and a standard for data exchange between different systems, some database companies are adding XML support to their existing database systems, while some other companies coming out with pure or native database systems for XML. In this paper, we present an experimental study on the query processing efficiency of a native-XML database system and an XMLenabled database system on a selected set of queries including operations from text-processing, DML and relation algebra. The experiments are conducted on two well-known commercial database systems using the web interfaces based on HTTP. The cost metrics we used are CPU time, the numbers of physical and logical reads. The queries were run on identical machines for 3 different sizes of documents with and without indexing. A subset of experimental results is presented and overall results are discussed. Generally speaking the XML-enabled system performed better.

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Fatih University, 34900, Istanbul, Buyukcekmece, Turkey

    Atakan Kurt

  2. Computer Engineering Department, Wayne-State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    Mustafa Atay

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  1. Database Systems Laboratory, University of Aizu, 965-8580, Fukushima, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan

    Subhash Bhalla

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Kurt, A., Atay, M. (2002). An Experimental Study on Query Processing Efficiency of Native-XML and XML-enabled Database Systems. In: Bhalla, S. (eds) Databases in Networked Information Systems. DNIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2544. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36233-9_21

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