• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.1 s.104
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• pp.11-22
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• 2006

As we are to deal with more and more XML documents, research on storing and managing XML documents in databases are actively conducted. Employing RDBMS or ORDBMS as a repository of XML documents is currently regarded as most practical. The query results out of XML documents stored in databases could be cached for query performance though the cost of cache consistency against the update of the underlying data is incurred. In this paper, we assume that an ORDBMS is used as a repository for the XML query cache as well as its underlying XML documents, and that XML query cache is refreshed in a deferred way with the update log. When the same XML document was updated multiple times, the deferred refresh of the XML query cache may Bet inefficient. We propose an algorithm that removes or filters such duplicate updates. Based on that, the optimal SQL statements that are to be executed for XML query cache consistency are generated. Through experiments, we show the efficiency of our proposed deferred refresh of XML query cache.