An XML Transaction Processing Benchmark

Summary: Proposes TPoX, an application-oriented XML benchmark for end-to-end DBMS evaluation, addressing XML benchmark gaps. Uses a multi-user FIXML workload to stress storage, indexing, logging, transactions, and concurrency control with a public implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3980
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 6.7922473e-05
Overall Rank: 4,269 | 70.72%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247590

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Authors

1. Matthias Nicola (IBM)
2. Irina Kogan (IBM)
3. Berni Schiefer (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nicola_sigmod07,
        title = {{An XML Transaction Processing Benchmark}},
        author = {Nicola, Matthias and Kogan, Irina and Schiefer, Berni},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247590},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247590},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,530	Natural Language Querying of Complex Business Intelligence Queries	2019	SIGMOD	5.8500871e-05
7,607	XQuery Reloaded	2009	VLDB	5.5845947e-05
12,566	An XML Index Advisor for DB2	2008	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,583	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
79	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00036555628
2,031	Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database	2004	VLDB	9.2839251e-05
4,288	Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database	2005	VLDB	6.7801502e-05

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