XArch: Archiving Scientific and Reference Data

Summary: XArch archives hierarchical data with a nested-merge approach, enabling compact multi-version storage and single-pass retrieval. It adds scalable secondary-storage sorting for hierarchies and a declarative language to view versions and track histories. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h304c4f9fef120e04
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.2772418e-05
Overall Rank: 8,783 | 40.95%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376758

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Heiko Müller (University of Edinburgh)
2. Peter Buneman (University of Edinburgh)
3. Ioannis Koltsidas (University of Edinburgh)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{muller_sigmod08,
        title = {{XArch: Archiving Scientific and Reference Data}},
        author = {Müller, Heiko and Buneman, Peter and Koltsidas, Ioannis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376758},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376758},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,076	Curated Databases	2008	PODS	0.00012159025
5,928	Sorting Hierarchical Data in External Memory for Archiving	2008	VLDB	5.9441579e-05
9,062	Preference-aware Integration of Temporal Data	2015	VLDB	5.2288029e-05
9,894	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	5.1129187e-05
12,673	DBWiki: A Structured Wiki for Curated Data and Collaborative Data Management	2011	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
709	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014609018
4,717	DTD-Directed Publishing with Attribute Translation Grammars	2002	VLDB	6.4552474e-05
5,928	Sorting Hierarchical Data in External Memory for Archiving	2008	VLDB	5.9441579e-05

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