WebFilter: A High-throughput XML-based Publish and Subscribe System

Summary: WebFilter performs scalable XML publish/subscribe by matching XML publications against XPath subscriptions. It combines flexible XPath filtering with dynamic subscription updates, sustaining roughly 1M subscriptions and 70 documents/sec. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9011
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 5.5460387e-05
Overall Rank: 7,778 | 46.64%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. João Pereira (INRIA)
2. Françoise Fabret (INRIA)
3. H. Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)
4. François Llirbat (INRIA)
5. Dennis Shasha (New York University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{pereira_vldb01,
        title = {{WebFilter: A High-throughput XML-based Publish and Subscribe System}},
        author = {Pereira, João and Fabret, Françoise and Jacobsen, H. Arno and Llirbat, François and Shasha, Dennis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,901	Near-Optimal Algorithms for Shared Filter Evaluation in Data Stream Systems	2008	SIGMOD	5.742719e-05
12,712	Scalable Continuous Query Processing by Tracking Hotspots	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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