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: 9221
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 9.0127497e-05
Overall Rank: 2,333 | 83.79%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,787	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010543821
3,115	Processing Queries on Tree-Structured Data Efficiently	2006	PODS	7.5414053e-05
3,380	Query Shredding: Efficient Relational Evaluation of Queries over Nested Multisets	2014	SIGMOD	7.1565855e-05
4,208	FERRY - Database-Supported Program Execution	2009	SIGMOD	6.3511489e-05
4,537	XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System	2005	VLDB	6.0988456e-05
5,112	Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation	2010	VLDB	5.6831818e-05
5,350	Pathfinder: XQuery—The Relational Way	2005	VLDB	5.5541436e-05
5,797	Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB	2005	SIGMOD	5.3232876e-05
7,639	Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect	2007	SIGMOD	4.6860809e-05
8,938	A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler	2007	SIGMOD	4.4229886e-05
9,060	XRPC: Interoperable and Efficient Distributed XQuery	2007	VLDB	4.3997447e-05
12,385	XRPC: Distributed XQuery and Update Processing with Heterogeneous XQuery Engines	2008	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,391	Dependable Cardinality Forecasts for XQuery	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,398	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,421	Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-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
99	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050043993
392	Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions	2001	VLDB	0.00024546229
1,028	Accelerating XPath Location Steps	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014578947
1,149	A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013649094
1,246	Answering XML Queries over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2001	VLDB	0.00013070554
1,384	Querying XML Views of Relational Data	2001	VLDB	0.00012259503
1,732	Efficient Structural Joins on Indexed XML Documents	2002	VLDB	0.00010716665
4,119	Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps	2003	VLDB	6.4309908e-05
5,442	Implementing XQuery 1.0: The Galax Experience	2003	VLDB	5.5021909e-05

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5,797	Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB	2005	SIGMOD	5.3232876e-05
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1,787	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010543821
12,398	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,512	Efficient XSLT Processing in Relational Database System	2006	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
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