Towards the Development of XML Benchmark for XML Updates

Many XML Benchmarks have been proposed to study strengths and weaknesses of any given XML database system. All existing benchmarks can be applied to evaluate data retrieval queries, but cannot be used to evaluate update performance of XML database systems. Therefore, this paper will propose criteria to evaluate the abilities to update XML documents of XML database systems. These criteria will be realized by a data set and corresponding queries that are applied to benchmark XML updates. Finally, the competence of the proposal will be examined by using a case study.