This work focuses on a methodology to help bring many of our database prototypes to reside on the top of a common workbench platform that leads to uniformity and removes overlap across different subsystem. Subsystem currently included are: a runner for SQL on a variety of database platforms, a runner for Quilt queries, ElementalDB, an experimental database system used for instruction in a graduate database implementation course, our own XQuery engine which aims at handling data in terabyte range stored in our storage in paginated form using our pagination algorithm. An XML based...