An Evaluation Framework for XML Engine on RDBMS

Abstract

More and more vendors think of blending XML data management into traditional relational database, with the increasingly widespread use of XML. This requires a comprehensive evaluation methodology to evaluate the XML engine on a RDBMS correctly. Through analyzing XML engine on RDBMS from various aspects, the article gets a conclusion that the evaluation on it should be from several major aspects such as storage, query and update. Also, the researcher designs a complete evaluation framework who covers all the provisions of XQuery W3C standard.