XML and Relational Database Management Systems: the Inside Story

Summary: Survey of how XML functionality is integrated into relational DBMSs, from IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle perspectives. Explores storage, indexing, and query bridging for semistructured XML data, highlighting vendor-specific design choices and tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3789
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.6160602e-05
Overall Rank: 7,445 | 48.93%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066298

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Rys (Microsoft)
2. Don Chamberlin (IBM)
3. Daniela Florescu (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rys_sigmod05,
        title = {{XML and Relational Database Management Systems: the Inside Story}},
        author = {Rys, Michael and Chamberlin, Don and Florescu, Daniela},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066298},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066298},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,583	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,638	Schema Advisor for Hybrid Relational-XML DBMS	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-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

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