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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
0.00044675716
Overall Rank
47 | 99.68%
DOI
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175 Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach 2004 SIGMOD 0.00027377116
321 FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00021373781
331 Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions 2001 VLDB 0.00021025391
418 A Fast Index for Semistructured Data 2001 VLDB 0.00018868449
457 Query Optimization for XML 1999 VLDB 0.00018224528
641 Your Mediators Need Data Conversion! 1998 SIGMOD 0.0001553574
709 Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.0001485897
870 Accelerating XPath Location Steps 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013541359
873 APEX: An Adaptive Path Index for XML Data 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013529238
875 Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications 2001 VLDB 0.00013527726
990 XMill: an Efficient Compressor for XML Data 2000 SIGMOD 0.000128643
991 D(K)-Index: An Adaptive Structural Summary for Graph-Structured Data 2003 SIGMOD 0.00012862919
1,142 XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012079723
1,222 Semistructured Data 1997 PODS 0.00011692251
1,235 Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data 1998 SIGMOD 0.00011628464
1,260 DTD Inference for Views of XML Data 2000 PODS 0.00011523568
1,814 Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data 1998 VLDB 9.7866835e-05
1,826 ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures 2003 SIGMOD 9.7672143e-05
1,862 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.684721e-05
1,979 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.4624505e-05
1,994 Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database 2004 VLDB 9.4275506e-05
2,072 Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data 1999 SIGMOD 9.284472e-05
2,151 Querying Network Directories 1999 SIGMOD 9.1386492e-05
2,228 Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data (Extended Abstract) 1999 PODS 8.9837167e-05
2,302 Towards Graph Containment Search and Indexing 2007 VLDB 8.8685843e-05
2,435 Path Queries on Compressed XML 2003 VLDB 8.6520147e-05
2,610 A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing 2004 VLDB 8.4157384e-05
2,755 Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data 2007 VLDB 8.2279205e-05
3,084 Structure and Value Synopses for XML Data Graphs 2002 VLDB 7.8426331e-05
3,131 Inference of Concise DTDs from XML Data 2006 VLDB 7.7793203e-05
3,373 Updates for Structure Indexes 2002 VLDB 7.5400257e-05
4,050 On Boosting Holism in XML Twig Pattern Matching Using Structural Indexing Techniques 2005 SIGMOD 7.0008697e-05
4,134 A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML 2001 PODS 6.9415571e-05
4,430 Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data 1999 PODS 6.7651355e-05
4,938 iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces 2007 VLDB 6.5011792e-05
5,026 Indexing Dataspaces 2007 SIGMOD 6.4629805e-05
5,237 Efficient Processing of XML Twig Queries with OR-Predicates 2004 SIGMOD 6.3742278e-05
5,300 Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML 2004 SIGMOD 6.3451196e-05
5,411 Capturing Topology in Graph Pattern Matching 2012 VLDB 6.2972133e-05
5,612 Incremental Maintenance of XML Structural Indexes 2004 SIGMOD 6.2143934e-05
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5,866 Efficient Processing of XML Path Queries Using the Disk-based F&B Index 2005 VLDB 6.1232549e-05
6,288 Capturing and Querying Multiple Aspects of Semistructured Data 1999 VLDB 5.9888125e-05
6,616 ROX: Run-time Optimization of XQueries 2009 SIGMOD 5.8812707e-05
6,708 Indexing Temporal XML Documents 2004 VLDB 5.8557482e-05
7,084 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 5.7601719e-05
7,143 Structured Materialized Views for XML Queries 2007 VLDB 5.7474122e-05
7,146 A Crash Course on Database Queries 2007 PODS 5.7472497e-05
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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
123 A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data 1996 SIGMOD 0.00031372214
565 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00016531575
686 Timber: A Sophisticated Relation Browser 1982 VLDB 0.00015097432
2,178 PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases 1996 VLDB 9.078643e-05
2,347 OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode 1990 SIGMOD 8.7924088e-05
2,966 On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies 1994 VLDB 7.9647569e-05
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