Index structures for matching XML twigs using relational query processors

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 283-302

  Chen, Zhiyuan ^a   Gehrke, Johannes ^b   Korn, Flip ^c   Koudas, Nick ^d   Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel ^b   Srivastava, Divesh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Index; Relational database; XML

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; XML;

MATCHING TIME; RELATIONAL QUERY PROCESSORS; XML TWIGS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 33846264583     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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