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Re: storing xml files into database

  • From: Bill Lindsey <bill@b...>
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:08:11 -0700

database from xml files
Frank Richards wrote:
> XML is a tree of elements. Naively mapping that tree onto a table causes the
> RDBMS to
> thrash it's guts out doing joins to go down the tree -- 
[ ... ]
> XML in an
> RDBMS can easily hit six or seven joins per query.

A typical, naive definition of a "nodes" table does lead to unacceptable 
performance due to the necessity of many self-joins.  It is possible, 
however, to devise a scheme for encoding nodes' context in a compact 
form, optimized for an RDBMS' indexing facility, and build a
generic table structure, capable of storing any well-formed
XML, yet does not exhibit the self-join problem.

With this technique, one can:
* leverage the mature ACID properties of commercial RDBMSs
* support any well formed XML with no additional developer or DBA effort
* provide fine-grained, random access to the content of large
collections
* efficiently query on content and/or structure

Bill Lindsey
B-Bop

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