An Analysis of the Current XQuery Benchmarks

This paper presents an extensive survey of the currently publicly available XQuery benchmarks — XMach-1, XMark, X007, the Michigan benchmark, and XBench — from different perspectives. We address three simple questions about these benchmarks: How are they used? What do they measure? What can one learn from using them? Our conclusions are based on an usage analysis, on an in-depth analysis of the benchmark queries, and on experiments run on four XQuery engines: Galax, SaxonB, Qizx/Open, and MonetDB/XQuery.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EXPDB
• Authors: Loredana Afanasiev, Maarten Marx
• Keywords: Available Xquery Benchmarks, EXPDB 2006, Information Management, Michigan Benchmark, XQuery