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Interest in querying XML is increasing as it becomes an important medium for data representation and exchange. A core component in most XML query languages is XPath. This paper describes a benchmark for comparing the performance of XPath query evaluation engines. The benchmark consists of an XML document generator which generates synthetic XML documents using a variety of benchmark-specific control factors. The benchmark also has a set of queries to compare XPath evaluation for each control factor. This paper reports on the performance of several, popular XPath query engines using the benchmark and draws some general inferences from the performance.
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Dyreson, C., Jin, H. (2009). A Synthetic, Trend-Based Benchmark for XPath. In: Chen, L., Liu, C., Liu, Q., Deng, K. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5667. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04205-8_5
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