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)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
- 2. Kristin Tufte
- 3. Gang He
- 4. Chun Zhang
- 5. David DeWitt
- 6. Jeffrey Naughton
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 57 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,196 | Generating Efficient Execution Plans for Vertically Partitioned XML Databases | 2011 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,398 | Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine | 2008 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,450 | XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,568 | ULoad: Choosing the Right Storage for your XML Application | 2005 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,672 | Querying Websites Using Compact Skeletons | 2001 | PODS | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,685 | On Processing XML in LDAP | 2001 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,689 | Storage and Retrieval of XML Data Using Relational Databases | 2001 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | The Database Language GEM | 1983 | SIGMOD | 0.00060817676 |
| 93 | Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations | 1982 | PODS | 0.00051290296 |
| 115 | A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.00046301137 |
| 123 | A Decomposition Storage Model | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00045235743 |
| 206 | Storing Semistructured Data with STORED | 1999 | SIGMOD | 0.00034583517 |
| 393 | From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.00024506032 |
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