What to store?
2. HTML files
- Advantages
- Disadvantages:
- space overhead
- hard to propagate updates
- materialization granularity (page) is inconvenient
3. XML fragments
- Advantages:
- separation between content and graphical representation, highlighting the structure of the data content of a page
- less space overhead, flexible granularity
- Disadvantages:
- harder updates propagation than DB
1. Views on the database
- Advantages :
- algorithms to decide which views to materialize
- easy to propagation updates
- Disadvantages:
- does not reduce the Web and DB servers load