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: 3862
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 12,450 | 13.48%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Haris Georgiadis
2. Vasilis Vassalos

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,313	Cost Based Plan Selection for XPath	2009	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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99	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050043993
153	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00040759404
513	Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents	2000	VLDB	0.00021365031
1,178	Efficient Evaluation of XML Middle-ware Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00013463399
1,732	Efficient Structural Joins on Indexed XML Documents	2002	VLDB	0.00010716665
1,787	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010543821
2,066	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.64571e-05
4,119	Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps	2003	VLDB	6.4309908e-05
4,537	XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System	2005	VLDB	6.0988456e-05
5,614	TIMBER: A Native System for Querying XML	2003	SIGMOD	5.4098571e-05
5,831	Efficient Processing of XML Path Queries Using the Disk-based F&B Index	2005	VLDB	5.308804e-05
5,893	BLAS : An Efficient XPath Processing System	2004	SIGMOD	5.2822731e-05
6,961	Query Translation from XPath to SQL in the Presence of Recursive DTDs	2005	VLDB	4.8781754e-05
7,996	On Relational Support for XML Publishing: Beyond Sorting and Tagging	2003	SIGMOD	4.606878e-05
8,603	Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB	2004	VLDB	4.4822157e-05

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