Kok-Leong Koong, Su-Cheng Haw and Lay-Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia

XML is a standard of data exchange between web applications such as in e-commerce, e-learning and other web portals. The data volume has grown substantially in the web and in order to effectively retrieve or store these data, it is recommended to be physically or virtually fragmented and distributed into different nodes. Basically, fragmentation design contains of two parts: fragmentation operation and fragmentation method. There are three different kinds of fragmentation operation: Horizontal, Vertical and Hybrid, determines how the XML should be fragmented. The aim of this paper is to give an overview on the fragmentation design consideration.

XML Database, Distributed Design, Fragmentation Distributed XML