Path Summaries and Path Partitioning in Modern XML Databases

• Andrei Arion, INRIA Futurs -- LRI, France
• Angela Bonifati, ICAR-CNR, Italy
• Ioana Manolescu, INRIA Futurs -- LRI, France
• Andrea Pugliese, University of Calabria, Italy

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We study the applicability of XML path summaries in the context of current-day XML databases. We find that summaries provide an excellent basis for optimizing data access methods, which furthermore mixes very well with path-partitioned stores. Our approach is implemented in the freely available XSum Java library (http:/www-rocq.inria.fr/gemo/XSum)