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: 3490
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 5.4098571e-05
Overall Rank: 5,614 | 60.99%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,109	ShreX: Managing XML Documents in Relational Databases	2004	VLDB	5.6871846e-05
12,313	Cost Based Plan Selection for XPath	2009	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,450	XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance	2007	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
2,783	ProTDB: Probabilistic Data in XML	2002	VLDB	8.1268718e-05
3,671	Querying Structured Text in an XML Database	2003	SIGMOD	6.853634e-05

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