On the memory requirements of XPath evaluation over XML streams

Journal of Computer and System Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 391-441

  Bar Yossef, Ziv ^a   Fontoura, Marcus ^b   Josifovski, Vanja ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication complexity; Data stream processing; Space lower bounds; XML; XPath

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TRANSDUCERS;

COMMUNICATION COMPLEXITY; DATA STREAM PROCESSING; MEMORY UTILIZATION; SPACE LOWER BOUNDS; XPATH EVALUATION;

XML;

EID: 33845956299     PISSN: 00220000     EISSN: 10902724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcss.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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