Virtual eXist-db: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence

Summary: Virtual eXist-db liberates XQuery from fixed hierarchical access paths by enabling plug-and-play queries over arbitrary hierarchies. A virtualDoc mechanism lets programmers specify the needed hierarchy; data are logically transformed to that target with information-loss guarantees, and a GUI tool supports building virtual hierarchies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11273
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,136 | 16.74%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824104

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Authors

1. Curtis E. Dyreson (Utah State University)
2. Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
3. Ryan Grapp (Utah State University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dyreson_vldb15,
        title = {{Virtual eXist-db: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence}},
        author = {Dyreson, Curtis E. and Bhowmick, Sourav S and Grapp, Ryan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1932--1935},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824104},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824104},
        year = {2015}
}

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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
48	DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases	1997	VLDB	0.00044033592
399	XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML	2003	VLDB	0.00019177959
496	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.0001750537
795	Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases	2005	SIGMOD	0.00013939786
2,114	Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data	1999	SIGMOD	9.1481121e-05
4,318	XSeek: A Semantic XML Search Engine Using Keywords	2007	VLDB	6.7640367e-05
9,352	Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers	2014	SIGMOD	5.2831061e-05

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