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Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities

Summary: Evaluates a conservative relational approach to XML: DTD-guided shredding, XML-to-SQL translation, and result reconstruction. Reveals which semi-structured query semantics relational engines cannot capture and proposes relational extensions to address them. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h19af11f2a149bb9c
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00029294114
Overall Rank
141 | 99.06%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{shanmugasundaram_vldb99,
        title = {{Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities}},
        author = {Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel and Tufte, Kristin and He, Gang and Zhang, Chun and DeWitt, David and Naughton, Jeffrey},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        year = {1999}
}

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86 XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management 2002 VLDB 0.00035810622
129 Efficient and Extensible Algorithms for Multi Query Optimization 2000 SIGMOD 0.0003040756
166 On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems 2001 SIGMOD 0.00027254612
178 Holistic Twig Joins: Optimal XML Pattern Matching 2002 SIGMOD 0.00026628894
374 Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System 2002 SIGMOD 0.00019707844
376 Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning 2007 VLDB 0.00019626699
441 A Fast Index for Semistructured Data 2001 VLDB 0.00018215078
544 Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents 2000 VLDB 0.00016629924
736 Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph 2007 VLDB 0.00014363536
740 Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014325275
778 The case against specialized graph analytics engines 2015 CIDR 0.00014043807
1,118 XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents 2000 SIGMOD 0.00011951924
1,171 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011702886
1,234 A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding 2003 SIGMOD 0.00011405864
1,353 MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage 2003 VLDB 0.00010930523
1,743 Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data 2014 SIGMOD 9.7368807e-05
1,784 System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML 2005 SIGMOD 9.6511778e-05
1,960 StatiX: Making XML Count 2002 SIGMOD 9.3125715e-05
2,525 Path Queries on Compressed XML 2003 VLDB 8.343313e-05
2,746 Holistic Twig Joins on Indexed XML Documents 2003 VLDB 8.0626049e-05
2,916 Extracting and Analyzing Hidden Graphs from Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 7.8583302e-05
3,233 From Tree Patterns to Generalized Tree Patterns: On Efficient Evaluation of XQuery 2003 VLDB 7.5033766e-05
3,505 Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization 2016 VLDB 7.2508161e-05
3,579 Efficiently Linking Text Documents with Relevant Structured Information 2006 VLDB 7.1923922e-05
3,916 JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data 2021 SIGMOD 6.9285787e-05
4,000 Tree Logical Classes for Efficient Evaluation of XQuery 2004 SIGMOD 6.8610702e-05
4,088 Automatic Generation of Normalized Relational Schemas from Nested Key-Value Data 2016 SIGMOD 6.8148416e-05
4,476 LegoDB: Customizing Relational Storage for XML Documents 2002 VLDB 6.5833438e-05
4,636 On Testing Satisfiability of Tree Pattern Queries 2004 VLDB 6.4931113e-05
4,936 Colorful XML: One Hierarchy Isn't Enough 2004 SIGMOD 6.3464763e-05
5,006 Optimizing View Queries in ROLEX to Support Navigable Result Trees 2002 VLDB 6.3175234e-05
5,101 Relational Approach for Shortest Path Discovery over Large Graphs 2012 VLDB 6.2732849e-05
5,147 ShreX: Managing XML Documents in Relational Databases 2004 VLDB 6.255814e-05
5,611 Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance 2008 PODS 6.0684862e-05
5,709 BLAS : An Efficient XPath Processing System 2004 SIGMOD 6.0242536e-05
5,810 Column Stores For Wide and Sparse Data 2007 CIDR 5.9872574e-05
5,893 Pattern tree algebras: sets or sequences? 2005 VLDB 5.9566606e-05
6,565 Incorporating XSL Processing Into Database Engines 2002 VLDB 5.7470839e-05
7,178 Designing Information-Preserving Mapping Schemes for XML 2005 VLDB 5.5932941e-05
7,311 Query Translation from XPath to SQL in the Presence of Recursive DTDs 2005 VLDB 5.5562115e-05
7,418 Structured Materialized Views for XML Queries 2007 VLDB 5.5327659e-05
7,624 Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect 2007 SIGMOD 5.4821096e-05
8,022 Cost-Sensitive Reordering of Navigational Primitives 2005 SIGMOD 5.4054691e-05
8,381 Automated Migration of Hierarchical Data to Relational Tables using Programming-by-Example 2018 VLDB 5.3428083e-05
9,129 CRIUS: User-Friendly Database Design 2011 VLDB 5.2233677e-05
9,527 RRXS: Redundancy reducing XML storage in relations 2003 VLDB 5.1657916e-05
9,836 Hubble: An Advanced Dynamic Folder Technology for XML 2005 VLDB 5.123765e-05
9,980 Schema-Based Query Optimisation for Graph Databases 2025 SIGMOD 5.1013913e-05
11,191 Nested Parquet Is Flat, Why Not Use It? How To Scan Nested Data With On-the-Fly Key Generation and Joins 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,598 Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
96 The Database Language GEM 1983 SIGMOD 0.00034286345
114 A Decomposition Storage Model 1985 SIGMOD 0.00031928929
130 A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data 1996 SIGMOD 0.00030320165
140 Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations 1982 PODS 0.00029346895
326 Storing Semistructured Data with STORED 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020963333
582 From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities 1994 SIGMOD 0.00015982468
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