Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB

Summary: Oracle XML DB rewrites XPath and SQL/XML over shredded XML into equivalent relational/object-relational algebra. This exposes XML queries to classical optimization, achieving near-relational performance and providing a foundation for XQuery rewriting. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9321
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.4049137e-05
Overall Rank: 8,600 | 41.00%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50098-X

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Muralidhar Krishnaprasad (Oracle)
2. Zhen Hua Liu (Oracle)
3. Anand Manikutty (Oracle)
4. James W. Warner (Oracle)
5. Vikas Arora (Oracle)
6. Susan Kotsovolos (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@article{krishnaprasad_vldb04,
        title = {{Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB}},
        author = {Krishnaprasad, Muralidhar and Liu, Zhen Hua and Manikutty, Anand and Warner, James W. and Arora, Vikas and Kotsovolos, Susan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {1134--1145},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50098-X},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50098-X},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,646	Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB	2005	SIGMOD	6.1360174e-05
7,039	Towards An Enterprise XML Architecture	2005	SIGMOD	5.7196743e-05
7,293	JSON Relational Duality: A Revolutionary Combination of Document, Object, and Relational Models	2025	SIGMOD	5.6533762e-05
9,216	Management of Flexible Schema Data in RDBMSs - Opportunities and Limitations for NoSQL	2015	CIDR	5.3051647e-05
12,428	Pay-As-You-Go - An Adaptive Approach to Provide Full Context-Aware Text Search over Document Content	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,559	Grouping and Optimization of XPath Expressions in DB2 pureXML	2008	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,583	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,635	XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,637	Effective and Efficient Update of XML in RDBMS	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,696	Efficient XSLT Processing in Relational Database System	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
79	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00036555628
1,208	Efficient Evaluation of XML Middle-ware Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00011659601
1,243	Querying XML Views of Relational Data	2001	VLDB	0.00011513177
4,710	XML Schemas in Oracle XML DB	2003	VLDB	6.5512275e-05

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