Semistructured Data

Summary: Treats self-describing, schema-light Web and integration sources as semistructured, proposing concise graph models for irregular labeled data. Develops expressive query/transformation languages and optimization techniques for schema-optional querying and browsing. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1108
Venue: PODS
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 0.00011562468
Overall Rank: 1,233 | 91.55%
DOI: 10.1145/263661.263675

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Peter Buneman (University of Pennsylvania)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{buneman_pods97,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '97},
        title = {{Semistructured Data}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/263661.263675},
        doi = {10.1145/263661.263675},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Buneman, Peter},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
22	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00056204792
470	Query Optimization for XML	1999	VLDB	0.00017965707
686	Query Containment for Conjunctive Queries With Regular Expressions	1998	PODS	0.00014948634
747	Querying Graph Databases	2013	PODS	0.00014400452
1,302	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.00011238375
1,834	Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data	1998	VLDB	9.6540074e-05
2,066	Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries	1999	PODS	9.2348082e-05
4,445	View-Based Query Containment	2003	PODS	6.699172e-05
4,495	Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data	1999	PODS	6.6623097e-05
6,369	Capturing and Querying Multiple Aspects of Semistructured Data	1999	VLDB	5.8974169e-05
6,747	Query Processing under GLAV Mappings for Relational and Graph Databases	2013	VLDB	5.784841e-05
7,435	Computational Aspects of Resilient Data Extraction from Semistructured Sources	2000	PODS	5.6193788e-05
7,881	On Views and XML	1999	PODS	5.5242839e-05
8,208	M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads	2023	VLDB	5.4665936e-05
9,430	A Theory of Regular Queries	2016	PODS	5.2704983e-05
9,877	Interaction between Path and Type Constraints	1999	PODS	5.2041072e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
48	DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases	1997	VLDB	0.00044033592
124	A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data	1996	SIGMOD	0.00030950263
403	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.0001907249
1,001	Querying and Updating the File	1993	VLDB	0.00012714843
1,073	A General Framework for the Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries	1992	SIGMOD	0.00012300294
1,167	Object Fusion in Mediator Systems	1996	VLDB	0.00011845214
1,869	Formal Models of Web Queries	1997	PODS	9.5891634e-05
3,734	STRUDEL: A Web-site Management System	1997	SIGMOD	7.1649073e-05
3,915	A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources	1995	VLDB	7.0193727e-05

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