XML twig pattern matching using version tree

A common problem of XML query algorithms is that execution time and input size grows rapidly as the size of XML document increases. In this paper, we propose a version-labeling scheme and TwigVersion algorithm to address this problem. The version-labeling scheme is utilized to identify all repetitive structures in XML documents, and the Version Tree is constructed to hold such version information. To process a query, TwigVersion generates a filter through the created Version Tree, and the final answer to the query can be retrieved from the database easily through the filtering process. Both theoretical proof and experimental results reported in this paper demonstrate that the concise structure of Version Tree and the reduced input size make TwigVersion outperform the existing approaches.     

针对XML流数据的复杂Twig Pattern查询处理

XML流数据处理在研究领域引起了研究者的广泛兴趣.针对XML流数据的、具有嵌套AND/OR谓词的复杂Twig Pattern查询处理,提出一种新方法.为了提高查询处理性能,将所有Twig Pattern合并为一个共享前缀的查询树,其中,AND/OR谓词被表示为单独的抽象语法树,因而能够以文档顺序、单遍地处理复杂Twig Pattern的匹配,并避免了YFilter中对嵌套谓词进行后置处理所产生的中间结果.实验结果表明,该方法能够有效改善Twig Pattern的处理性能,尤其是在处理大文档的情况下.基于已     

一种基于XML小枝查询片段松弛的近似查询与结果排序方法

提出了一种基于XML小枝查询片段松弛的近似查询与结果排序方法来实现用户在XML文档中的近似查询:通过收集用户的查询历史来推测用户偏好,并以此计算原始小枝查询分解得到的查询片段的重要程度,然后按照重要程度的排序进行查询松弛;在松弛方法中,根据查询片段数目的不同采用不同的松弛方法,若片段数目较多则以查询片段为粒度对其松弛,较少则以查询结点为粒度对数值查询与非数值查询采用不同的方法进行松弛,得到最为相关的近似查询结果;最后按近似查询结果对原始查询和用户偏好的满足程度进行排序并输出。实验证明,该近似查询方法能够较好地满足用户的需求和偏好,具有较高的查全率和准确率。     

A syntactic approach to twig-query matching on XML streams

Query matching on XML streams is challenging work for querying efficiency when the amount of queried stream data is huge and the data can be streamed in continuously. In this paper, the method Syntactic Twig-Query Matching (STQM) is proposed to process queries on an XML stream and return the query results continuously and immediately. STQM matches twig queries on the XML stream in a syntactic manner by using a lexical analyzer and a parser, both of which are built from our lexical-rules and grammar-rules generators according to the user's queries and document schema, respectively. For query matching, the lexical analyzer scans the incoming XML stream and the parser recognizes XML structures for retrieving every twig-query result from the XML stream. Moreover, STQM obtains query results without a post-phase for excluding false positives, which are common in many streaming query methods. Through the experimental results, we found that STQM matches the twig query efficiently and also has good scalability both in the queried data size and the branch degree of the twig query. The proposed method takes less execution time than that of a sequence-based approach, which is widely accepted as a proper solution to the XML stream query.     

PS+Pre/Post: A novel structure and access mechanism for wireless XML stream supporting twig pattern queries

XML data broadcast is an efficient way to disseminate XML data to a large number of mobile clients in mobile wireless networks. Recently, several indexing methods have been proposed to improve the performance of XML query processing in terms of access time and tuning time over XML streams. However, existing indexing methods cannot process twig pattern XML queries. In this paper, we propose a novel structure for streaming XML data called PS+Pre/Post by integrating the path summary technique and the pre/post labeling scheme. Our proposed XML stream structure exploits the benefits of the path summary technique and the pre/post labeling scheme to efficiently process different types of XML queries over the broadcast stream. Experimental results show that our proposed XML stream structure improves the performance of access time and tuning time in processing different types of XML queries.     

RRSi: indexing XML data for proximity twig queries

Twig query pattern matching is a core operation in XML query processing. Indexing XML documents for twig query processing is of fundamental importance to supporting effective information retrieval. In practice, many XML documents on the web are heterogeneous and have their own formats; documents describing relevant information can possess different structures. Therefore some “user-interesting” documents having similar but non-exact structures against a user query are often missed out. In this paper, we propose the RRSi, a novel structural index designed for structure-based query lookup on heterogeneous sources of XML documents supporting proximate query answers. The index avoids the unnecessary processing of structurally irrelevant candidates that might show good content relevance. An optimized version of the index, oRRSi, is also developed to further reduce both space requirements and computational complexity. To our knowledge, these structural indexes are the first to support proximity twig queries on XML documents. The results of our preliminary experiments show that RRSi and oRRSi based query processing significantly outperform previously proposed techniques in XML repositories with structural heterogeneity.

一种非归并不确定XML小枝模式查询算法

针对目前不确定XML小枝模式查询需要存储大量中间结果和归并中间结果的情况,提出一种非归并不确定XML小枝模式查询算法ProTwigList。该算法查询之前通过Tag+Level流进行剪枝,以减少待处理节点的数目;并扩展了区间编码来对剪枝后剩余的普通节点进行编码,用一定规则对分布节点进行标识;查询时采用公共分布节点路径的方法处理分布结点,最后结合最低公共祖先节点的概率计算查询结果的概率值。理论分析和实验结果证明了ProTwigList算法的查询效率。     

路径分区编码优化小枝查询

有效地存储查询XML文档已经成为当今数据库领域的研究热点。从XML文档的路径统计出发,提出了路径分区存储编码方案,并依此消除了小枝查询的后裔边和通配符。针对这类不含//和*的小枝查询,利用路径分区编码的特性,给出了基于结构约束节点的Twig查询算法,极大地减少了结构连接次数。实验表明,该算法能有效滤除无关元素,提高小枝查询效率。     

一种GML文档的Twig模式查询算法

GML文档是XML技术在GIS方面的应用,成为空间数据在Internet上的实际表示、传输和交换的标准。目前,GML文档的查询是GIS领域的研究热点。对这一问题,研究了GML文档的数据特点和结构特点,设计了一种新的索引结构——GB树,GB树是专门针对GML文档中空间数据节点的索引结构。将XMLTwig模式查询思想引入GML文档查询,借助GB树的索引特点,提出了GML文档的Twig模式查询算法——GMLTwigStackGB。GMLTwigStackGB算法保留了XML文档Twig模式查询算法的优势和特点,具有完整的空间查询功能。测试实验表明,该算法能够高效地满足GML文档上的各种数据查询。