ROX: Relational Over XML

Summary: ROX enables querying XML stored natively through SQL, avoiding XQuery migration and leveraging XML’s storage. It analyzes drivers, denormalization, and optimization; a DB2 prototype shows performance with pre-joined XML storage and join-indexing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9412
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,800 | 12.19%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50026-7

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Authors

1. Alan Halverson (University of Wisconsin)
2. Vanja Josifovski (IBM)
3. Guy Lohman (IBM)
4. Hamid Pirahesh (IBM)
5. Mathias Mörschel

BibTeX Citation

@article{halverson_vldb04,
        title = {{ROX: Relational Over XML}},
        author = {Halverson, Alan and Josifovski, Vanja and Lohman, Guy and Pirahesh, Hamid and Mörschel, Mathias},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        volume = {30},
        pages = {264--275},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50026-7},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50026-7},
        year = {2004}
}

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,243	Querying XML Views of Relational Data	2001	VLDB	0.00011513177
2,494	Supporting Flat Relations by a Nested Relational Kernel	1987	VLDB	8.5053229e-05
4,380	LegoDB: Customizing Relational Storage for XML Documents	2002	VLDB	6.7340205e-05

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