TIMBER: A Native System for Querying XML

Summary: TIMBER studies native XML storage with a set-at-a-time query processor. Its native XML store provides algebraic rewriting and a cost-based optimizer, addressing expressivity and performance gaps in XML-to-relational mappings. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3489
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 5.4149426e-05
Overall Rank: 5,603 | 61.03%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,108	ShreX: Managing XML Documents in Relational Databases	2004	VLDB	5.6919861e-05
12,305	Cost Based Plan Selection for XPath	2009	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,441	XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance	2007	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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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
2,774	ProTDB: Probabilistic Data in XML	2002	VLDB	8.134432e-05
3,667	Querying Structured Text in an XML Database	2003	SIGMOD	6.8602249e-05

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