XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance

Summary: XPath on Steroids exploits relational engines to accelerate XPath queries. Finds optimal joins, indices, and storage layouts, guarantees pipelined SQL, and uses a hybrid schema-aware/oblivious XML mapping; experiments show competitive performance vs native and relational XPath systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3861
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 12,441 | 13.45%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Haris Georgiadis
2. Vasilis Vassalos

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,305	Cost Based Plan Selection for XPath	2009	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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98	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050023808
153	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00040784455
511	Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents	2000	VLDB	0.00021384332
1,176	Efficient Evaluation of XML Middle-ware Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00013474703
1,733	Efficient Structural Joins on Indexed XML Documents	2002	VLDB	0.00010724888
1,795	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010526672
2,069	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.6329563e-05
4,117	Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps	2003	VLDB	6.4371566e-05
4,539	XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System	2005	VLDB	6.1038066e-05
5,603	TIMBER: A Native System for Querying XML	2003	SIGMOD	5.4149426e-05
5,820	Efficient Processing of XML Path Queries Using the Disk-based F&B Index	2005	VLDB	5.3135144e-05
5,889	BLAS : An Efficient XPath Processing System	2004	SIGMOD	5.2873528e-05
6,963	Query Translation from XPath to SQL in the Presence of Recursive DTDs	2005	VLDB	4.8828629e-05
7,992	On Relational Support for XML Publishing: Beyond Sorting and Tagging	2003	SIGMOD	4.6113031e-05
8,604	Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB	2004	VLDB	4.4865165e-05

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