Demythization of Structural XML Query Processing: Comparison of Holistic and Binary Approaches

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27240%2F21%3A10247369" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27240/21:10247369 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61989100:27730/21:10247369

Result on the web

<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8862877" target="_blank" >https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8862877</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2019.2946157" target="_blank" >10.1109/TKDE.2019.2946157</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Demythization of Structural XML Query Processing: Comparison of Holistic and Binary Approaches

Original language description

XML queries can be modeled by twig pattern queries (TPQs) specifying predicates on XML nodes and XPath relationships satisfied between them. A lot of TPQ types have been proposed; this paper takes into account a TPQ model extended by a specification of output and non-output query nodes since it complies with the XQuery semantics and, in many cases, it leads to a more efficient query processing. In general, there are two types of approaches to process a TPQ: holistic joins and binary joins. Whereas the binary join approach builds a query plan as a tree of interconnected binary operators, the holistic join approach evaluates a whole query using one operator (i.e., using one complex algorithm). Surprisingly, a thorough analytical and experimental comparison is still missing despite an enormous research effort in this area. In this paper, we try to fill this gap; we analytically and experimentally show that the binary joins used in a fully-pipelined plan (i.e., the plan where each join operation does not wait for the complete result of the previous operation and no explicit sorting is used) can often outperform the holistic joins, especially for TPQs with a higher ratio of non-output query nodes. The main contributions of this paper can be summarized as follows: (i) we introduce several improvements of existing binary join approaches allowing to build a fully-pipelined plan for a TPQ considering non-output query nodes, (ii) we prove that for a certain class of TPQs such a plan has the linear time complexity with respect to the size of the input and output as well as the linear space complexity with respect to the XML document depth (i.e., the same complexity as the holistic join approaches), (iii) we show that our improved binary join approach outperforms the holistic join approaches in many situations, and (iv) we propose a simple combined approach that utilizes advantages of both types of approaches.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10200 - Computer and information sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1404" target="_blank" >LO1404: Sustainable Development of Center ENET</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

ISSN

1041-4347

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1439-1452

UT code for WoS article

000626617900008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102305093