Oracle XQuery performance issue in XMLType column

Question

Dear All,
As for oracle I'm using oracle 11g to measure the performance.
I'm using data from XMark project which is a >100MB data of XML for bencmarking purposes.
I make a table that contains an XMLType column and upload the data into that column, after doing that I try to do a query like this:
select xmlquery(
'for $i in /site/people/person
where $i/id = "person0"
return $i/name'
passing BookXMLContent Returning Content)
from Book;
The purpose of this query is to retrieve the name of a person that have id = 'person0'
My questions are:
1. Did I do something wrong with my query?
2. Is there any setting on the database that I should done prior to doing the query to done significantly better result?
3. Is there any other approach that are much better than I currently used?
Regards,
Anthony Steven
Edited by: mdrake on Nov 4, 2009 6:01 AM

Answer 1

Anthony
First, please read the licencing terms for Oracle ( And I suspect DB2, MSFT) . You are not allowed to publish externally (in any form, including forum posts :) ) the results of any benchmarking activities. I have edited your post accordingly. I hope this research is not part of a thesis or similar work that would intend making public as you and your institution would be in violation of your licence agreeement were you to do so.
Now back to your question, how can you improve performance for XMark
#1. Can you show us the create table statement you used, so we can see how you created your XMLType column BOOKXMLCONTENT.
#2. Did you create any indexes
#3. Did you look at the explain plan output.
-Mark
Edited by: mdrake on Nov 4, 2009 6:06 AM