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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
3551
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2003
Pagerank
6.0244141e-05
Overall Rank
5,970 | 59.05%
DOI
10.1145/872757.872862

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{paparizos_sigmod03,
        title = {{TIMBER: A Native System for Querying XML}},
        author = {Paparizos, Stelios and Al-Khalifa, Shurug and Chapman, Adriane and Jagadish, H. V. and Lakshmanan, Laks V. S. and Nierman, Andrew and Patel, Jignesh M. and Srivastava, Divesh and Wiwatwattana, Nuwee and Wu, Yuqing and Yu, Cong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/872757.872862},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872862},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
5,032 ShreX: Managing XML Documents in Relational Databases 2004 VLDB 6.3947542e-05
12,499 Cost Based Plan Selection for XPath 2009 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,635 XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance 2007 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,569 ProTDB: Probabilistic Data in XML 2002 VLDB 8.4090027e-05
3,728 Querying Structured Text in an XML Database 2003 SIGMOD 7.1685118e-05
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