XQuery on SQL Hosts

Summary: XQuery compiled to SQL over a relational tree encoding enables a pure-relational XQuery runtime in a DBMS. FLWOR blocks map to equi-joins while preserving identity, document/sequence order, and axis semantics; yields strong performance and OLAP benefits. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9220
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 9.0210652e-05
Overall Rank: 2,329 | 83.80%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,795	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010526672
3,117	Processing Queries on Tree-Structured Data Efficiently	2006	PODS	7.5407318e-05
3,375	Query Shredding: Efficient Relational Evaluation of Queries over Nested Multisets	2014	SIGMOD	7.1633324e-05
4,209	FERRY - Database-Supported Program Execution	2009	SIGMOD	6.3572003e-05
4,539	XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System	2005	VLDB	6.1038066e-05
5,111	Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation	2010	VLDB	5.6885921e-05
5,386	Pathfinder: XQuery—The Relational Way	2005	VLDB	5.5379061e-05
5,787	Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB	2005	SIGMOD	5.3277155e-05
7,639	Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect	2007	SIGMOD	4.6904624e-05
8,934	A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler	2007	SIGMOD	4.427232e-05
9,062	XRPC: Interoperable and Efficient Distributed XQuery	2007	VLDB	4.4039656e-05
12,377	XRPC: Distributed XQuery and Update Processing with Heterogeneous XQuery Engines	2008	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,383	Dependable Cardinality Forecasts for XQuery	2008	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,389	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,412	Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs	2008	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
98	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050023808
391	Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions	2001	VLDB	0.00024564567
1,027	Accelerating XPath Location Steps	2002	SIGMOD	0.0001458865
1,149	A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding	2003	SIGMOD	0.0001365931
1,245	Answering XML Queries over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2001	VLDB	0.00013080995
1,383	Querying XML Views of Relational Data	2001	VLDB	0.00012270434
1,733	Efficient Structural Joins on Indexed XML Documents	2002	VLDB	0.00010724888
4,117	Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps	2003	VLDB	6.4371566e-05
5,432	Implementing XQuery 1.0: The Galax Experience	2003	VLDB	5.5067308e-05

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12,503	Efficient XSLT Processing in Relational Database System	2006	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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