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: 3923
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,635 | 13.32%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247517

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Authors

1. Haris Georgiadis (Athens University of Economics and Business)
2. Vasilis Vassalos (Athens University of Economics and Business)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{georgiadis_sigmod07,
        title = {{XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance}},
        author = {Georgiadis, Haris and Vassalos, Vasilis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247517},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247517},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,499	Cost Based Plan Selection for XPath	2009	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
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.0006312782
79	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00036555628
137	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00029877792
535	Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents	2000	VLDB	0.00017003136
1,208	Efficient Evaluation of XML Middle-ware Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00011659601
1,460	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010710674
1,523	Efficient Structural Joins on Indexed XML Documents	2002	VLDB	0.00010502089
1,744	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.868841e-05
3,727	Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps	2003	VLDB	7.1689738e-05
4,265	XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System	2005	VLDB	6.7936855e-05
5,580	BLAS : An Efficient XPath Processing System	2004	SIGMOD	6.1625053e-05
5,952	Efficient Processing of XML Path Queries Using the Disk-based F&B Index	2005	VLDB	6.031089e-05
5,970	TIMBER: A Native System for Querying XML	2003	SIGMOD	6.0244141e-05
7,172	Query Translation from XPath to SQL in the Presence of Recursive DTDs	2005	VLDB	5.6837389e-05
8,027	On Relational Support for XML Publishing: Beyond Sorting and Tagging	2003	SIGMOD	5.5048122e-05
8,600	Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB	2004	VLDB	5.4049137e-05

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