Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters (한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터)

Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (한국정보과학회)
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Multi-Path Index Scheme for the Efficient Retrieval of XML Data

XML 데이타의 효과적인 검색을 이한 다중 경로 인덱스

  • 송하주 (서울대학교 컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 김형주 (서울대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
  • Published : 2001.02.01
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Abstract

Extended path expressions are used to denote multiple paths concisely by using '$\ast$' character. They are convenient for expressing OQL queries to retrieve XML data stored in OODBs. In this paper, we propose a multi-path index scheme as a new index scheme to efficiently process queries with extended path expressions. Our proposed index scheme allocates a unique path identifier for every possible single path in an extended path expression and provides functionalities of both a single path indexing and multiple path indexing through the composition of index key and path identifier while using only a index structure. The proposed index scheme provides better performance than single-path index schemes, and is practical since it can be implemented by little modification of leaf records of a B+-tree index.

확장 경로식은 '$\ast$'문자를 이용하여 여러 개의 경로를 간단하게 나타내기 위해 사용하는 것으로 객체지향 데이타베이스(object-oriented database : OODB)에 저장된 XML 데이타를 검색하는 질의를 표현하기에 유리하다. 본 논문은 이러한 확장 경로식을 포함하는 OQL 질의를 효과적으로 처리하기 위한 인덱스 구조로서 다중 경로 인덱스 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 확장 경로식에 포함되는 각각의 단일 경로에 대해 고유한 경로 식별자를 부여한다. 그리고 인덱스 키값과 경로 식별자를 조합하여 저장하므로써 하나의 인덱스만을 이용하여 다수의 경로에 대한 검색과 단일한 경로에 대한 인덱스 기능을 동시에 지원하도록 하였다. 이 기법은 확장된 경로식에 대해 기존 인덱스를 여러 개 사용하는 방법보다 검색 성능을 높일 수 있고 B+-트리 인덱스 구조를 크게 변형하지 않고 사용할 수 있어 실용성이 우수하다.

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