# Indices in XML Databases

## TL;DR

This paper surveys current XML indexing techniques, discusses challenges and future trends, and introduces a specialized index for XML data warehouses to improve query performance.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of XML indices, analyzes their tradeoffs, and presents a novel index tailored for XML data warehouses.

## Key findings

- XML indices significantly enhance query performance
- Tradeoffs exist between index complexity and efficiency
- A new index design improves XML data warehouse queries

## Abstract

With XML becoming a standard for business information representation and exchange, stor-ing, indexing, and querying XML documents have rapidly become major issues in database research. In this context, query processing and optimization are primordial, native-XML data-bases not being mature yet. Data structures such as indices, which help enhance performances substantially, are extensively researched, especially since XML data bear numerous specifici-ties with respect to relational data. In this paper, we survey state-of-the-art XML indices and discuss the main issues, tradeoffs and future trends in XML indexing. We also present an in-dex that we specifically designed for the particular architecture of XML data warehouses.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1701.08054