Efficient Storage and Retrieval of XML Documents Using XQuery

Abstract

XML has already been the standard of data interchange on the Internet. Nowadays, a large amount of data is represented in XML format. However, most of the critical data in businesses are still stored in relational database management systems. It is difficult to query XML databases because of its textual format. This research intends to tackle this problem, and we proposed a system to manage XML documents that could be queried by the query language XQuery. XML documents are stored in relational format and the XQuery expressions are translated into appropriate SQL queries. The results of the SQL queries are transformed into XML documents. Comparing with LegoDB System, our system reduces processing time to search a relation configuration and proposes a better translating and executing technique which is more efficiently.