Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs

Summary: Recasts filesystems as tree-aware database stores using XML numbering and relational XML engines. Prototypes link filesystem content to BaseX for interactive querying and mount MonetDB/XQuery as a conventional userspace filesystem, unifying OS and DB access. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10002
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,606 | 13.52%
DOI: 10.14778/1454159.1454167

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Authors

1. Alexander Holupirek (University of Konstanz)

BibTeX Citation

@article{holupirek_vldb08,
        title = {{Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs}},
        author = {Holupirek, Alexander},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1623--1626},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454167},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454167},
        year = {2008}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
299	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00022084669
893	Accelerating XPath Location Steps	2002	SIGMOD	0.00013374715
1,162	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011866011
1,460	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010710674
2,601	Personal Information Management with Semex	2005	SIGMOD	8.3549555e-05
2,720	XQuery on SQL Hosts	2004	VLDB	8.2086071e-05
5,170	Pathfinder: XQuery—The Relational Way	2005	VLDB	6.3348421e-05
7,486	Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect	2007	SIGMOD	5.6073128e-05
9,090	A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler	2007	SIGMOD	5.3251649e-05

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