In the current context of Big Data, a multitude of new NoSQL solutions for storing, managing,
and extracting information and patterns from semi-structured data have been proposed and …

Extensible markup language (XML) is emerging as a de facto standard for information
exchange among various applications on the World Wide Web. There has been a growing …

MPEG-7 constitutes a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. It can be
expected that a lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions will be set up in the …

Clinical data are dynamic in nature, often arranged hierarchically and stored as free text and
numbers. Effective management of clinical data and the transformation of the data into …

XML support is being added to existing database management systems (DBMSs) and native
XML systems are being developed both in industry and in academia. The individual …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the efficient evaluation of XQuery. XQuery is the
current de facto standard XML query language. A core operation in the evaluation of XQuery …

An XML twig query, represented as a labeled tree, is essentially a complex selection
predicate on both structure and content of an XML document. Twig query matching has been …

This paper describes the overall architecture and design aspects of a hybrid relational and
XML database system called System RX. We believe that such a system is fundamental in …

Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database Page 1 IBM Software Group ® Native XML
Support in DB2 Universal Database Matthias Nicola, Bert van der Linden IBM Silicon Valley …

Path expressions are ubiquitous in XML processing languages. Existing approaches
evaluate a path expression by selecting nodes that satisfies the tag-name and value …