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With more and more data stored into XML databases, there is a need to provide the same level of failure resilience and robustness that users have come to expect from relational database systems. In this work, we discuss strategies to provide the transactional aspect of atomicity to XML databases. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a novel approach for performing updates-in-place on XML databases, with the undo statements stored in the same high level language as the update statements. Finally, we give experimental results to study the performance/storage trade-off of the updates-in-place strategy (based on our undo proposal) against the deferred updates strategy to providing atomicity.
This work was partially done while the first and second authors were at IRISA/INRIA, France. This work is supported by the CREATE ACTIVEDOC, DOCFLOW and SecureSCM projects.
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Biswas, D., Jiwane, A., Genest, B. (2009). Atomicity for XML Databases. In: Bellahsène, Z., Hunt, E., Rys, M., Unland, R. (eds) Database and XML Technologies. XSym 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5679. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03555-5_15
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