Views in a Large Scale XML Repository
Résumé
We are interested in defining and querying views in a huge and
highly heterogeneous XML repository (Web scale). In this context, view definitions are very
large and there is no apparent limitation to their size. This raises
interesting problems that we address in the paper: (i) how to distribute
views over several machines without having a negative impact on the query
translation process; (ii) how to quickly select the relevant part of a view
given a query; (iii) how to minimize the cost of communicating potentially
large queries to the machines where they will be evaluated.