Pathfinder: XQuery—The Relational Way
Summary: Pathfinder encodes XML trees and XPath/XQuery into relational representations for MonetDB. Pre/size/level encoding, axis predicates, staircase joins, and order-aware optimization; modest kernel extensions enable scalable XQuery on commodity hardware. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Peter Boncz
- 2. Torsten Grust
- 3. Maurice van Keulen
- 4. Stefan Manegold
- 5. Jan Rittinger
- 6. Jens Teubner
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,006 | Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data | 2014 | SIGMOD | 9.8144532e-05 |
| 4,257 | Efficient Processing of Window Functions in Analytical SQL Queries | 2015 | VLDB | 6.3050642e-05 |
| 7,599 | XQuery Reloaded | 2009 | VLDB | 4.6973564e-05 |
| 12,421 | Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs | 2008 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 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 |
| 1,028 | Accelerating XPath Location Steps | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00014578947 |
| 2,333 | XQuery on SQL Hosts | 2004 | VLDB | 9.0127497e-05 |
| 4,119 | Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps | 2003 | VLDB | 6.4309908e-05 |
| 13,712 | An Injection with Tree Awareness: Adding Staircase Join to PostgreSQL | 2004 | VLDB | - |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,513 | On the Path to Efficient XML Queries | 2006 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,370 | Relational-Style XML Query | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 4,119 | Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps | 2003 | VLDB | 6.4309908e-05 |
| 7,639 | Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.6860809e-05 |
| 1,028 | Accelerating XPath Location Steps | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00014578947 |
| 4,537 | XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System | 2005 | VLDB | 6.0988456e-05 |
| 12,450 | XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 2,333 | XQuery on SQL Hosts | 2004 | VLDB | 9.0127497e-05 |
| 1,787 | MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00010543821 |
| 8,938 | A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.4229886e-05 |