The design and performance evaluation of alternative XML storage strategies
Feng Tian, David J. DeWitt, Jianjun Chen, Chun Zhang · ACM SIGMOD Record · 2002
This paper studies five strategies for storing XML documents including one that leaves documents in the file system, three that use a relational database system, and one that uses an object manager. We implement and evaluate each approach using a number of XQuery queries. A number of interesting insights are gained from these experiments and a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of the approaches is presented.