An extent join to compute path expressions containing parent-children andancestor-descendent operations and two path expression optimization rules, path-shortening andpath-complementing, are presented in this paper. P...An extent join to compute path expressions containing parent-children andancestor-descendent operations and two path expression optimization rules, path-shortening andpath-complementing, are presented in this paper. Path-shortening reduces the number of joins byshortening the path while path-complementing optimizes the path execution by using an equivalentcomplementary path expression to compute the original one. Experimental results show that thealgorithms proposed are more efficient than traditional algorithms.展开更多
文摘An extent join to compute path expressions containing parent-children andancestor-descendent operations and two path expression optimization rules, path-shortening andpath-complementing, are presented in this paper. Path-shortening reduces the number of joins byshortening the path while path-complementing optimizes the path execution by using an equivalentcomplementary path expression to compute the original one. Experimental results show that thealgorithms proposed are more efficient than traditional algorithms.