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A practical and promising approach to parallelizing XPath queries was proposed by Bordawekar et al. in 2009, which enables parallelization on top of existing XML database engines. Although they experimentally demonstrated the speedup by their approach, their practice has already been out of date because the software environment has largely changed with the capability of XQuery processing. In this work, we implement their approach in two ways on top of a state-of-the-art XML database engine and experimentally demonstrate that our implementations can bring significant speedup on a commodity server.
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We would like to thank Christian Grün of the BaseX team for his technical comments and feedback on BaseX.
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Sato, S., Hao, W., Matsuzaki, K. (2018). Parallelization of XPath Queries Using Modern XQuery Processors. In: Benczúr, A., et al. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 909. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00063-9_7
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