Journal of KIISE:Databases (한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스)

Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (한국정보과학회)
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A Path Partitioning Technique for Indexing XML Data

XML 데이타 색인을 위한 경로 분할 기법

  • 김종익 (서울대학교 컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 김형주 (서울대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
  • Published : 2004.06.01
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Abstract

Query languages for XML use paths in a data graph to represent queries. Actually, paths in a data graph are used as a basic constructor of an XML query. User can write more expressive Queries by using Patterns (e.g. regular expressions) for paths. There are many identical paths in a data graph because of the feature of semi-structured data. Current researches for indexing XML utilize identical paths in a data graph, but such an index can grow larger than source data graph and cannot guarantee efficient access path. In this paper we propose a partitioning technique that can partition all the paths in a data graph. We develop an index graph that can find appropriate partitions for a path query efficiently. The size of our index graph can be adjusted regardless of the source data. So, we can significantly improve the cost for index graph traversals. In the performance study, we show our index much faster than other graph based indexes.

XML에 대한 질의 언어는 데이타 그래프 내의 경로를 이용하여 질의를 표현한다. 특히, 경로에 패턴 (예를 들어, 정규식)을 사용함으로써, 데이타의 구조를 정확히 알지 못하더라도 질의가 가능하도록 한다. 이때, 패턴을 이용하는 질의는 데이타 그래프의 탐색범위를 크게 넓히게 된다. 기존의 XML색인 기법은 질의의 탐색범위를 줄이기 위해 데이타 그래프 내의 서로 동일한 경로들을 하나로 묶어 작은 크기의 색인 그래프를 생성하는 방법을 이용한다. 하지만 이러한 색인들은 많은 경우 색인의 크기가 데이터 그래프의 크기만큼 증가하게 되어 질의의 탐색범위를 줄이지 못하고, 따라서 효율적인 질의 처리를 보장하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 데이타 내에 존재하는 모든 경로를 분할(partitioning)하고 질의 처리 시 질의에 맞는 분할 영역을 빠르게 찾아낼 수 있는 색인 그래프를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 색인 그래프는 데이터 그래프의 크기와 상관없이 색인 그래프의 크기를 조절할 수 있다. 따라서 색인 그래프의 크기를 작게 구성함으로써 색인 그래프 탐색 비용을 크게 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는, 실험을 통해 기존의 그래프 기반색인 기법들보다 본 논문의 색인 기법이 보다 효율적임을 보이고 색인의 크기 변화에 따른 성능 변화에 대해 알아본다.

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