XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems

18.2. Related Work

Several proposals for generating synthetic XML data have been proposed (Aboulnaga et al. 2001; Barbosa et al. 2002). Aboulnaga et al. proposed a data generator that accepts as many as twenty parameters to allow a user to control the properties of the generated data. Such a large number of parameters adds a level of complexity that may interfere with the ease of use of a data generator. Furthermore, this data generator does not make available the schema of the data that some systems could exploit. Most recently, Barbosa et al. proposed a template-based data generator for XML, which can generate multiple tunable data sets. In contrast to these previous data generators, the data generator in the Michigan benchmark produces an ...