ON THE TREE INCLUSION AND QUERY EVALUATION IN DOCUMENT DATABASES

Yangjun Chen, Yibin Chen

2005

Abstract

In this paper, a method to evaluate queries in document databases is proposed. The main idea of this method is a new top-down algorithm for tree-inclusion. In fact, a path-oriented query can be considered as a pattern tree while an XML document can be considered as a target tree. To evaluate a query S against a document T, we will check whether S is included in T. For a query S, our algorithm needs O(|T|xheight(S)) time and no extra space to check the containment of S in document T, where |T| stands for the number of nodes in T and height(S) for the height of S. Especially, the signature technique can be integrated into a top-down tree inclusion to cut off useless subtree checkings as early as possible.

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Chen Y. and Chen Y. (2005). ON THE TREE INCLUSION AND QUERY EVALUATION IN DOCUMENT DATABASES . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 182-190. DOI: 10.5220/0002517201820190


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@conference{iceis05,
author={Yangjun Chen and Yibin Chen},
title={ON THE TREE INCLUSION AND QUERY EVALUATION IN DOCUMENT DATABASES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={182-190},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002517201820190},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - ON THE TREE INCLUSION AND QUERY EVALUATION IN DOCUMENT DATABASES
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Chen Y.
AU - Chen Y.
PY - 2005
SP - 182
EP - 190
DO - 10.5220/0002517201820190