2.9 Performance Tips

In this section we explain some simple tricks that may enhance the performance of your MonetDB/XQuery application.

• Separate Documents vs Document Collections: designing your XML database.
• Scalability: how to handle large XML.
• Bulk Loading a Collection: importing thousands of documents.
• Expression Caching: sessions of multiple queries, with subexpression caching.
• XQuery Modules: structuring your XQueries, enabling use via XRPC.
• Prepared Queries: avoiding query parsing and optimization.