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DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases

Summary: DataGuides provide structural summaries for semistructured data, acting as on-the-fly schemas. They enable query formulation, store stats and samples, and guide optimization; implemented with incremental upkeep in Lore for browsing and planning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8445
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
0.00064281097
Overall Rank
61 | 99.58%
DOI
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202 Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach 2004 SIGMOD 0.00034881375
351 FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00026351742
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489 Your Mediators Need Data Conversion! 1998 SIGMOD 0.00021989648
504 Query Optimization for XML 1999 VLDB 0.00021513261
812 Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00016343476
864 APEX: An Adaptive Path Index for XML Data 2002 SIGMOD 0.00015781693
880 DTD Inference for Views of XML Data 2000 PODS 0.00015642282
925 XMill: an Efficient Compressor for XML Data 2000 SIGMOD 0.00015243795
987 XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014810157
993 D(K)-Index: An Adaptive Structural Summary for Graph-Structured Data 2003 SIGMOD 0.00014759406
1,028 Accelerating XPath Location Steps 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014578947
1,045 Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications 2001 VLDB 0.00014451072
1,163 Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data 1998 SIGMOD 0.00013572993
1,314 Semistructured Data 1997 PODS 0.00012618313
1,658 Querying Network Directories 1999 SIGMOD 0.00010970782
1,663 Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data 1998 VLDB 0.00010961643
1,814 Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database 2004 VLDB 0.00010450277
1,900 Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data (Extended Abstract) 1999 PODS 0.00010168127
2,166 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.3918483e-05
2,174 ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures 2003 SIGMOD 9.3762595e-05
2,182 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.3596252e-05
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2,432 Towards Graph Containment Search and Indexing 2007 VLDB 8.8247178e-05
2,509 Path Queries on Compressed XML 2003 VLDB 8.6250598e-05
2,869 Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data 2007 VLDB 7.9841565e-05
2,980 A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing 2004 VLDB 7.7800968e-05
3,114 Structure and Value Synopses for XML Data Graphs 2002 VLDB 7.5419224e-05
3,149 Inference of Concise DTDs from XML Data 2006 VLDB 7.4803351e-05
3,468 Updates for Structure Indexes 2002 VLDB 7.0634268e-05
3,683 Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data 1999 PODS 6.84255e-05
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5,391 Indexing Dataspaces 2007 SIGMOD 5.5330974e-05
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5,679 Incremental Maintenance of XML Structural Indexes 2004 SIGMOD 5.3760807e-05
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6,876 XQuery Optimization 2003 VLDB 4.8947451e-05
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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
115 A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data 1996 SIGMOD 0.00046301137
410 Timber: A Sophisticated Relation Browser 1982 VLDB 0.00023886475
438 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00023220283
1,537 PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases 1996 VLDB 0.00011457125
1,722 OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode 1990 SIGMOD 0.00010741116
2,084 On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies 1994 VLDB 9.5788876e-05
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