Agora: Living with XML and Relational

Summary: Agora exposes XML as the query interface while integrating heterogeneous relational sources through a virtual relational schema. It translates and rewrites XML queries, accommodates access-pattern constraints in planning, and exploits text indexes for semistructured-data performance. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8882
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
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Overall Rank: 14,103 | 3.25%
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Authors

1. Ioana Manolescu (INRIA)
2. Daniela Florescu (INRIA)
3. Donald Kossmann (Technical University of Munich)
4. Florian Xhumari (INRIA)
5. Dan Olteanu (INRIA; Polytechnic University of Bucharest)

BibTeX Citation

@article{manolescu_vldb00,
        title = {{Agora: Living with XML and Relational}},
        author = {Manolescu, Ioana and Florescu, Daniela and Kossmann, Donald and Xhumari, Florian and Olteanu, Dan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '00},
        pages = {623},
        year = {2000}
}

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