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Abstract : |
With the continuing increasing popularity of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a representation format for a wide variety of data, and it is clear that large repositories of XML data sets will soon emerge. The effective management of XML in a database thus becomes a pressing issue. Several methods for managing XML databases have emerged, ranging from retrofitting commercial RDBMSs to building native XML database systems. There has naturally been an interest in benchmarking the performance of these systems, and a number of benchmarks have been proposed [?,?,?]. The focus of currently proposed benchmarks is to assess the performance of a given XML database in performing a variety of representative tasks. Such benchmarks are valuable to potential users of a database system in providing an indication of the performance that the user, |
