An XML Index Advisor for DB2

Summary: XML index advisor tightly coupled with DB2's query optimizer to recommend XML indexes for complex, large XML workloads. Demonstrates new optimizer modes, the index recommendation process, and the effectiveness of the recommended indexes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4141
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,566 | 13.79%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376752

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Authors

1. Iman Elghandour (Alexandria University; University of Waterloo)
2. Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo)
3. Daniel C. Zilio (IBM)
4. Fei Chiang (University of Toronto)
5. Andrey Balmin (IBM)
6. Kevin Beyer (IBM)
7. Calisto Zuzarte (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{elghandour_sigmod08,
        title = {{An XML Index Advisor for DB2}},
        author = {Elghandour, Iman and Aboulnaga, Ashraf and Zilio, Daniel C. and Chiang, Fei and Balmin, Andrey and Beyer, Kevin and Zuzarte, Calisto},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376752},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376752},
        year = {2008}
}

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768	Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach	2005	SIGMOD	0.00014173242
4,269	An XML Transaction Processing Benchmark	2007	SIGMOD	6.7922473e-05
12,697	On the Path to Efficient XML Queries	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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