ShreX: Managing XML Documents in Relational Databases

Summary: ShreX shreds XML into relational schemas and supports loading and querying in RDBMS. It covers all literature and commercial mapping strategies, offers mapping-independent load and XML-to-SQL translation primitives, and is portable across backends. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9279
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 6.3947542e-05
Overall Rank: 5,032 | 65.48%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50131-5

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Fang Du (Oregon Graduate Institute; Oregon Health & Science University)
2. Sihem Amer-Yahia (AT&T)
3. Juliana Freire (Oregon Graduate Institute; Oregon Health & Science University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{du_vldb04,
        title = {{ShreX: Managing XML Documents in Relational Databases}},
        author = {Du, Fang and Amer-Yahia, Sihem and Freire, Juliana},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {1297},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50131-5},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50131-5},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,795	Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data	2007	VLDB	8.115421e-05
2,889	F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale	2018	VLDB	7.9935046e-05
4,014	Automatic Generation of Normalized Relational Schemas from Nested Key-Value Data	2016	SIGMOD	6.956076e-05
12,500	Simplifying XML Schema: Effortless Handling of Nondeterministic Regular Expressions	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
137	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00029877792
318	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021380325
5,970	TIMBER: A Native System for Querying XML	2003	SIGMOD	6.0244141e-05

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