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Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities

Summary: Relational DBs for XML evaluates using conventional RDBMS to process XML documents with DTDs. It builds a prototype that converts XML to relational tuples, translates semi-structured XML queries to SQL, and returns XML results; evaluation on real DTDs shows broad coverage with gaps and suggests relational extensions for XML querying. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8576
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00040784455
Overall Rank
153 | 98.94%
DOI
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511 Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents 2000 VLDB 0.00021384332
766 MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage 2003 VLDB 0.00017014604
817 Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00016352717
851 The case against specialized graph analytics engines 2015 CIDR 0.0001594441
900 Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph 2007 VLDB 0.00015495155
992 XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014799689
1,048 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00014457009
1,149 A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001365931
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2,069 System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML 2005 SIGMOD 9.6329563e-05
2,151 Efficiently Linking Text Documents with Relevant Structured Information 2006 VLDB 9.4252167e-05
2,507 Path Queries on Compressed XML 2003 VLDB 8.6311009e-05
3,086 Tree Logical Classes for Efficient Evaluation of XQuery 2004 SIGMOD 7.596041e-05
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4,533 LegoDB: Customizing Relational Storage for XML Documents 2002 VLDB 6.1063172e-05
4,625 On Testing Satisfiability of Tree Pattern Queries 2004 VLDB 6.0406081e-05
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5,206 Pattern tree algebras: sets or sequences? 2005 VLDB 5.6301206e-05
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7,639 Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect 2007 SIGMOD 4.6904624e-05
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8,777 CRIUS: User-Friendly Database Design 2011 VLDB 4.4545267e-05
9,174 RRXS: Redundancy reducing XML storage in relations 2003 VLDB 4.3838473e-05
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9,676 Schema-Based Query Optimisation for Graph Databases 2025 SIGMOD 4.3047774e-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
68 The Database Language GEM 1983 SIGMOD 0.00060795269
97 Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations 1982 PODS 0.0005080702
114 A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data 1996 SIGMOD 0.00046339735
123 A Decomposition Storage Model 1985 SIGMOD 0.00045255007
207 Storing Semistructured Data with STORED 1999 SIGMOD 0.00034611968
393 From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024524092
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