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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
8635
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
0.00044033592
Overall Rank
48 | 99.68%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{goldman_vldb97,
        title = {{DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases}},
        author = {Goldman, Roy and Widom, Jennifer},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {436--445},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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177 Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach 2004 SIGMOD 0.00027100548
326 FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00021152829
341 Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions 2001 VLDB 0.00020704572
430 A Fast Index for Semistructured Data 2001 VLDB 0.00018600166
470 Query Optimization for XML 1999 VLDB 0.00017965707
645 Your Mediators Need Data Conversion! 1998 SIGMOD 0.00015338713
718 Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014642961
893 Accelerating XPath Location Steps 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013374715
897 APEX: An Adaptive Path Index for XML Data 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013339862
901 Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications 2001 VLDB 0.00013334162
1,008 D(K)-Index: An Adaptive Structural Summary for Graph-Structured Data 2003 SIGMOD 0.00012688008
1,011 XMill: an Efficient Compressor for XML Data 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012683964
1,142 XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012002609
1,233 Semistructured Data 1997 PODS 0.00011562468
1,253 Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data 1998 SIGMOD 0.00011475793
1,290 DTD Inference for Views of XML Data 2000 PODS 0.00011312135
1,834 Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data 1998 VLDB 9.6540074e-05
1,849 ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures 2003 SIGMOD 9.6191884e-05
1,912 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.4946756e-05
2,006 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.3190255e-05
2,031 Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database 2004 VLDB 9.2839251e-05
2,114 Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data 1999 SIGMOD 9.1481121e-05
2,201 Querying Network Directories 1999 SIGMOD 8.9653966e-05
2,261 Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data (Extended Abstract) 1999 PODS 8.846133e-05
2,328 Towards Graph Containment Search and Indexing 2007 VLDB 8.745748e-05
2,472 Path Queries on Compressed XML 2003 VLDB 8.5327655e-05
2,658 A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing 2004 VLDB 8.287535e-05
2,795 Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data 2007 VLDB 8.115421e-05
3,129 Structure and Value Synopses for XML Data Graphs 2002 VLDB 7.7256156e-05
3,185 Inference of Concise DTDs from XML Data 2006 VLDB 7.6567423e-05
3,421 Updates for Structure Indexes 2002 VLDB 7.4273213e-05
4,113 On Boosting Holism in XML Twig Pattern Matching Using Structural Indexing Techniques 2005 SIGMOD 6.8941988e-05
4,178 A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML 2001 PODS 6.849218e-05
4,495 Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data 1999 PODS 6.6623097e-05
5,006 iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces 2007 VLDB 6.4034229e-05
5,100 Indexing Dataspaces 2007 SIGMOD 6.3646337e-05
5,298 Efficient Processing of XML Twig Queries with OR-Predicates 2004 SIGMOD 6.2770047e-05
5,360 Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML 2004 SIGMOD 6.2487273e-05
5,484 Capturing Topology in Graph Pattern Matching 2012 VLDB 6.2018052e-05
5,688 Incremental Maintenance of XML Structural Indexes 2004 SIGMOD 6.1208788e-05
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5,952 Efficient Processing of XML Path Queries Using the Disk-based F&B Index 2005 VLDB 6.031089e-05
6,369 Capturing and Querying Multiple Aspects of Semistructured Data 1999 VLDB 5.8974169e-05
6,688 ROX: Run-time Optimization of XQueries 2009 SIGMOD 5.8015211e-05
6,808 Indexing Temporal XML Documents 2004 VLDB 5.7664516e-05
7,202 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 5.6755422e-05
7,267 Structured Materialized Views for XML Queries 2007 VLDB 5.6597556e-05
7,270 A Crash Course on Database Queries 2007 PODS 5.6595955e-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
124 A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data 1996 SIGMOD 0.00030950263
573 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00016290377
703 TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser 1982 VLDB 0.0001485124
2,210 PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases 1996 VLDB 8.9427694e-05
2,380 OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode 1990 SIGMOD 8.6609083e-05
3,019 On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies 1994 VLDB 7.8457355e-05
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