Elaborative survey on storage technologies for XML big data: A real-time approach

Recent tremendous increase in the use of huge amount of XML data over the web leads to the development of new technologies. The special characteristic of XML is its flexible structure that makes XML as the widely used data format. Big data generally refers large amount of data of any type. As the size of the XML data is increased, XML big data takes the advantage of considering both XML and big data. Hence, innovative technologies are essential to handle XML big data. Therefore, it is necessary for the technologies to emphasize more on storage and management of XML big data. We elucidate the fundamental features of XML and big data. An important aspect of this survey is about the considerations of storage technologies for XML big data in real-time applications. This paper provides a review on latest technologies that can store, process and manage XML big data efficiently. In particular, the paper outlines the efficient storage technologies that can be applied to support XML big data. On the whole, based on the current technologies and literature review, our paper enumerates XML big data storage technologies that are available for real-world applications.