Benefits of Path Summaries in an XML Query Optimizer Supporting Multiple Access Methods

Summary: XML query optimizer with path summaries over access methods; statistics-based optimization for plan selection. Experiments show speedups; path summaries rival index structures for typical XML workloads across multiple access methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9283
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 4.7641328e-05
Overall Rank: 7,299 | 49.28%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,315	FIX: Feature-based Indexing Technique for XML Documents	2006	VLDB	4.352917e-05
12,416	XML Structural Summaries	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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2,174	ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures	2003	SIGMOD	9.3762595e-05

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