Title
A decomposition-based probabilistic framework for estimating the selectivity of XML twig queries
Abstract
In this paper we present a novel approach for estimating the selectivity of XML twig queries. Such a technique is useful for answering approximate queries as well as for determining an optimal query plan for complex queries based on said estimates. Our approach relies on a summary structure that contains the occurrence statistics of small twigs. We rely on a novel probabilistic approach for decomposing larger twig queries into smaller ones. We then show how it can be used to estimate the selectivity of the larger query in conjunction with the summary information. We present and evaluate different strategies for decomposition and compare this work against a state-of-the-art selectivity estimation approach on synthetic and real datasets. The experimental results show that our proposed approach is very effective in estimating the selectivity of XML twig queries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11687238_33
EDBT
Keywords
DocType
Volume
approximate query,xml twig query,novel approach,state-of-the-art selectivity estimation approach,novel probabilistic approach,decomposition-based probabilistic framework,complex query,small twig,larger query,larger twig query
Conference
3896
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-540-32960-9
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
18
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao Wang140427.12
Srinivasan Parthasarathy24666375.76
Ruoming Jin3163791.73