Expressing OLAP operators with the TAX XML algebra

With the rise of XML as a standard for representing busi-ness data, XML data warehouses appear as suitable solu-tions for Web-based decision-support applications. In this context, it is necessary to allow OLAP analyses over XML data cubes (XOLAP). Thus, XQuery extensions are needed. To help define a formal framework and allow much-needed performance optimizations on analytical queries expressed in XQuery, having an algebra at one’s disposal is desirable. However, XOLAP approaches and algebras from the liter-ature still largely rely on the relational model and/or only feature a small number of OLAP operators. In opposition, we propose in this paper to express a broad set of OLAP operators with the TAX XML algebra