XML is gradually employed as a standard of data exchange in web environmentsince its inception in the 90s until present. It serves as a data exchangebetween systems and other applications. Meanwhile the data volume has grownsubstantially in the web and thus effective methods of storing and retrievingthese data is essential. One recommended way is physically or virtuallyfragments the large chunk of data and distributes the fragments into differentnodes. Fragmentation design of XML document contains of two parts:fragmentation operation and fragmentation method. The three fragmentationoperations are Horizontal, Vertical and Hybrid. It determines how the XMLshould be fragmented. This paper aims to give an overview on the fragmentationdesign consideration and subsequently, propose a fragmentation technique usingnumber addressing.
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