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: 9473
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.6218773e-05
Overall Rank: 7,423 | 49.08%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Attila Barta (University of Toronto)
2. Mariano P. Consens (University of Toronto)
3. Alberto O. Mendelzon (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@article{barta_vldb05,
        title = {{Benefits of Path Summaries in an XML Query Optimizer Supporting Multiple Access Methods}},
        author = {Barta, Attila and Consens, Mariano P. and Mendelzon, Alberto O.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        pages = {133--144},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,496	FIX: Feature-based Indexing Technique for XML Documents	2006	VLDB	5.2611263e-05
12,601	XML Structural Summaries	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
163	On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00027839792
1,849	ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures	2003	SIGMOD	9.6191884e-05

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