Holistic Schema Mappings for XML-on-RDBMS

Patil, Priti and Haritsa, Jayant R (2006) Holistic Schema Mappings for XML-on-RDBMS. In: Proc. of 11th Intl. Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), , April 2006, Singapore.

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Abstract

When hosting XML information on relational backends, a mapping has to be established between the schemas of the information source and the target storage repositories. A rich body of recent literature exists for mapping isolated components of XML Schema to their relational counterparts, especially with regard to table configurations. In this paper, we present the Elixir system for designing industrial-strength mappings for real-world applications. Specifically, it produces an information-preserving holistic mapping that transforms the complete XML world-view (XML schema with constraints, XML documents XQuery queries including triggers and views) into a full-scale relational mapping (table definitions, integrity constraints, indices, triggers and views) that is tuned to the application workload. A key design feature of Elixir is that it performs all its mapping-related optimizations in the XML source space, rather than in the relational target space. Further, unlike the XML mapping tools of commercial database systems, which rely heavily on user inputs, Elixir takes a principled cost-based approach to automatically find an efficient relational mapping. A prototype of Elixir is operational and we quantitatively demonstrate its functionality and efficacy on a variety of real-life XML schemas.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2011 05:34
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2011 05:34
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/41973

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