A High Performance XML Querying Architecture

Data exchange on the Internet plays an essential role in electronic business (e-business). A recent trend in e-business is to create distributed databases to facilitate data exchange. In most cases, the distributed databases are developed by integrating existing systems, which may be in different database models, and on different hardware and/or software platforms. Heterogeneity may cause many difficulties. A solution to the difficulties is XML (the Extensible Markup Language). XML is becoming the dominant language for exchanging data on the Internet. To develop XML systems for practical applications, developers have to addresses the performance issues. In this paper, we describe a new XML querying architecture that can be used to build high performance systems. Experiments indicate that the architecture performs better than Oracle XML DB, which is one of the most commonly used commercial DBMSs for XML.