Implementing Filesystems by Tree-Aware DBMSs

With the rise of XML, the database community has been challenged by semi-structured data processing. Since the data type behind XML is the tree, state-of-the-art RDBMSs have learned to deal with such data. This paper introduces a Ph.D. project focused on the question in how far the tree-awareness of recent RDBMSs can be used to; once again, try to implement filesystems using database technology. The authors' main goal is to provide means to query the data stored in filesystems and to find ways to enhance/combine the data storage and query capabilities of operating systems using semi-structured database technology.