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XML database; XML persistence
Definition
A wide variety of technologies may be employed to physically persist XML documents for later retrieval or update, from relational database management systems to hierarchical systems to native file systems. Once the target technology is chosen, there is still a large number of storage mapping strategies that define how parts of the document or document collection will be represented in the back-end technology. Additionally, there are issues of optimization of the technology and strategy used for the mapping. XML Storage covers all the above aspects of persisting XML document collections.
Historical Background
Even though the need for XML storage naturally arose after the emergence of XML, similar techniques had been developed earlier, since the mid-1990s, to store semi-structured data. For example, the LORE system included a storage manager specifically designed for semi-structured objects, while the STORED system allowed the definition...
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Barbosa, D. et al. (2018). XML Storage. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_771
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