PAXQuery: Parallel Analytical XML Processing

Summary: Compiles a rich subset of XQuery into PACT-based plans and runs them on Apache Flink for parallel XML analytics. Introduces a novel XQuery-to-PACT translation enabling scalable, efficient processing of massive XML corpora. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5051
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.2409648e-05
Overall Rank: 9,661 | 33.72%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2735374

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez (Hortonworks)
2. Dario Colazzo (University of Paris)
3. Ioana Manolescu (INRIA)
4. Juan A. M. Naranjo (INRIA; University of Paris)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{camachorodriguez_sigmod15,
        title = {{PAXQuery: Parallel Analytical XML Processing}},
        author = {Camacho-Rodríguez, Jesús and Colazzo, Dario and Manolescu, Ioana and Naranjo, Juan A. M.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2735374},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2735374},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,377	Scalable Querying of Nested Data	2021	VLDB	5.8931544e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0010686205
79	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00036555628
395	Containment and Equivalence for an XPath Fragment [Extended Abstract]	2002	PODS	0.00019298983
843	Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce*	2011	SIGMOD	0.00013666161
1,460	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010710674
2,164	Opening the Black Boxes in Data Flow Optimization	2012	VLDB	9.0521951e-05

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