XML

For today's class, we will be reading two papers:

Shanmugasundaram, J., Tufte, K., He, G., Zhang, C., DeWitt, D., Naughton, J.: Relational databases for querying XML documents: Limitations and Opportunities. In: Proceedings of VLDB, pp. 302314 (1999) We're reading this paper because it describes some of the issues when trying to query XML from a relational database. Skip sections 4 and 5.
Michael Stonebraker Joseph M. Hellerstein: What Goes Around Comes Around. Readings in Database Systems, Fourth Edition Morgan Kaufmann 2005. It gives an interesting perspective on the various data models that we've discussed for the last little bit.

For those interested in what are the issues in storing in a native XML database, I recommend the following optional paper: Fiebig, T., Helmer, S., Kanne, C.-C., Moerkotte, G., Neumann, J., Schiele, R., Westmann, T.: Anatomy of a native XML base management system. The VLDB Journal 11(4), 292314 (2002)

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