Effective and Efficient Update of XML in RDBMS

Summary: Shows XML update in Oracle XML DB within SQL/XML, grounded in real customer workloads. Evaluates update semantics under concurrency and transactions, outlines optimization strategies, and compares to the XQuery Update Facility to inform SQL/XML standardization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3979
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,637 | 13.30%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247589

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Authors

1. Zhen Hua Liu (Oracle)
2. Muralidhar Krishnaprasad (Oracle)
3. James W. Warner (Oracle)
4. Rohan Angrish (Oracle)
5. Vikas Arora (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod07,
        title = {{Effective and Efficient Update of XML in RDBMS}},
        author = {Liu, Zhen Hua and Krishnaprasad, Muralidhar and Warner, James W. and Angrish, Rohan and Arora, Vikas},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247589},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247589},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,293	JSON Relational Duality: A Revolutionary Combination of Document, Object, and Relational Models	2025	SIGMOD	5.6533762e-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
1,744	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.868841e-05
2,772	Updating XML	2001	SIGMOD	8.1398108e-05
3,408	XML and Relational Database Management Systems: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005	2005	SIGMOD	7.4370792e-05
4,710	XML Schemas in Oracle XML DB	2003	VLDB	6.5512275e-05
5,646	Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB	2005	SIGMOD	6.1360174e-05
6,269	From XML view updates to relational view updates: old solutions to a new problem	2004	VLDB	5.9331005e-05
7,039	Towards An Enterprise XML Architecture	2005	SIGMOD	5.7196743e-05
8,600	Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB	2004	VLDB	5.4049137e-05

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