Comparison of Fully Software and Hardware Accelerated XML Processing
| Thesis title in Czech: | Srovnání hardwarově akcelerovaného a softwarového zpracování XML dat |
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| Thesis title in English: | Comparison of Fully Software and Hardware Accelerated XML Processing |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2007/2008 |
| Thesis type: | diploma thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Software Engineering (32-KSI) |
| Supervisor: | doc. RNDr. Irena Holubová, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 15.02.2008 |
| Date of assignment: | 15.02.2008 |
| Date and time of defence: | 24.09.2008 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 24.09.2008 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 24.09.2008 |
| Opponents: | doc. Mgr. Martin Nečaský, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| Since XML technologies are currently exploited as a de-facto standard in numerous spheres of human activities, the demand for efficient XML processing is increasing every day. A natural approach to its optimization is exploitation of a hardware designed particularly for the purpose of XML processing. But this solution brings several open questions such as, e.g., what is the current state of the art of such appliances, in which situations is this solution suitable or what are the related advantages and disadvantages.
The aim of this work is to compare and analyze features of standard fully software and hardware accelerated solutions for XML processing from the point of view of currently supported technologies, efficiency, price and other relevant aspects. Firstly, it is necessary to select an appropriate appliance and describe its XML processing features. The core of the work is specification of appropriate testing scenarios which will focus on key features of the appliance and analysis of the related results. The second part of the thesis will focus on selecting suitable fully software implementations of the supported XML technologies and comparison of their features and efficiency with the hardware accelerated solution. |
| References |
| Mlýnková, I. - Pokorný, J. - Richta, K. - Toman, K. - Toman, V.: Technologie XML. Skripta. Karlova Univerzita, Praha, Česká republika, září 2006.
W3C. W3C Technical Reports and Publications. (http://www.w3.org/TR/) W3C Test Suites (http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/) XMark (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/xml/) XOO7 Benchmark (http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ebh/XOO7.html) XBench (http://se.uwaterloo.ca/~ddbms/projects/xbench/) Mlynkova, I. - Toman, K. - Pokorný, J.: Statistical Analysis of Real XML Data Collections. Technical report 2006/5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2006, 43 pages. (http://kocour.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~mlynkova/doc/tr2006-5.pdf) |
| Preliminary scope of work in English |
| Since XML technologies are currently exploited as a de-facto standard in numerous spheres of human activities, the demand for efficient XML processing is increasing every day. A natural approach to its optimization is exploitation of a hardware designed particularly for the purpose of XML processing. But this solution brings several open questions such as, e.g., what is the current state of the art of such appliances, in which situations is this solution suitable or what are the related advantages and disadvantages.
The aim of this work is to compare and analyze features of standard fully software and hardware accelerated solutions for XML processing from the point of view of currently supported technologies, efficiency, price and other relevant aspects. Firstly, it is necessary to select an appropriate appliance and describe its XML processing features. The core of the work is specification of appropriate testing scenarios which will focus on key features of the appliance and analysis of the related results. The second part of the thesis will focus on selecting suitable fully software implementations of the supported XML technologies and comparison of their features and efficiency with the hardware accelerated solution. |