Mapping of schema data into data structures

Translation architecture that facilitates translation between schema data and relational structures. The architecture includes a translation component that consumes schema data (e.g., an XML schema) that includes a schema structure, validates the schema structure, and persists in memory a representation of the schema as a relational format. Since schemas are shredded into tables, instance validation loads only the necessary components to perform validation. During validation, only parts of the schema that are used are loaded and cached. A schema cache stores the in-memory representation of schema optimized for instance validation. Schema components are loaded from metadata into main memory as read-only objects such that multiple users can use the in-memory objects for validation, query processing, query optimization and storage optimization of XML instance data