A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSING XML DOCUMENTS

摘要

A method and apparatus for more efficiently storing shredded XML documents is provided. The method and apparatus exploit the power of compression and a form of storing relational data referred to as column-major format, to store XML documents in shredded form. The column values that are to be stored for shredded XML documents are separately analyzed for each XML document to determine whether to store a particular column in column-major format and what compression technique to use, if any.