Extending XQuery for Analytics

Summary: Extends XQuery FLWOR with explicit grouping and result numbering for OLAP-style analytics on XML data. Enables explicit grouping, ranking, moving-window, and rollups on dynamic hierarchies, simplifying analytics without extra language extensions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3723
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 7.7900555e-05
Overall Rank: 3,069 | 78.95%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066215

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kevin Beyer (IBM)
2. Don Chamberlin (IBM)
3. Latha S. Colby (IBM)
4. Fatma Özcan (IBM)
5. Hamid Pirahesh (IBM)
6. Yu Xu (IBM; University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{beyer_sigmod05,
        title = {{Extending XQuery for Analytics}},
        author = {Beyer, Kevin and Chamberlin, Don and Colby, Latha S. and Özcan, Fatma and Pirahesh, Hamid and Xu, Yu},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066215},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066215},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,467	Multidimensional Content eXploration	2008	VLDB	7.3898968e-05
3,636	Damia: Data Mashups for Intranet Applications	2008	SIGMOD	7.2341246e-05
5,936	Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views	2006	SIGMOD	6.0353909e-05
8,757	Search Driven Analysis of Heterogeneous XML Data	2009	CIDR	5.3766157e-05
12,430	Graphical XQuery in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,696	Efficient XSLT Processing in Relational Database System	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,742	Bridging the Gap between OLAP and SQL	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
393	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.0001934104
1,744	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.868841e-05
12,799	The NEXT Framework for Logical XQuery Optimization	2004	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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