Processing Queries on Tree-Structured Data Efficiently

Summary: Survey of algorithms, complexity results, and techniques for efficient evaluation of node/tuple queries on trees (conjunctive queries, FO, Datalog, XPath). Organizes results by the core ideas yielding tractability and exposes previously unnoticed connections among approaches. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3258382c74432942
Venue: PODS
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 6.7459542e-05
Overall Rank: 4,189 | 71.84%
DOI: 10.1145/1142351.1142382

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Christoph Koch (Saarland University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{koch_pods06,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '06},
        title = {{Processing Queries on Tree-Structured Data Efficiently}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142351.1142382},
        doi = {10.1145/1142351.1142382},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Koch, Christoph},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,481	Counting Solutions to Conjunctive Queries: Structural and Hybrid Tractability	2014	PODS	8.403072e-05
2,916	Extracting and Analyzing Hidden Graphs from Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	7.8583302e-05
12,265	The Complexity of Ontology-Based Data Access with OWL 2 QL and Bounded Treewidth Queries	2017	PODS	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
178	Holistic Twig Joins: Optimal XML Pattern Matching	2002	SIGMOD	0.00026628894
247	Efficient Filtering of XML Documents for Selective Dissemination of Information	2000	VLDB	0.00023199427
390	Conjunctive-Query Containment and Constraint Satisfaction	1998	PODS	0.00019248147
679	Efficient Algorithms for Processing XPath Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00014837097
709	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014609018
733	ORDPATHs: Insert-Friendly XML Node Labels	2004	SIGMOD	0.00014379182
760	Stream Processing of XPath Queries with Predicates	2003	SIGMOD	0.00014161342
958	XPath Queries on Streaming Data	2003	SIGMOD	0.00012860244
1,330	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.00010999761
1,353	MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage	2003	VLDB	0.00010930523
1,599	Conjunctive Queries over Trees	2004	PODS	0.00010117703
1,807	Validating Streaming XML Documents	2002	PODS	9.5963125e-05
1,901	ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures	2003	SIGMOD	9.4044288e-05
2,100	XML Data Exchange: Consistency and Query Answering	2005	PODS	9.050183e-05
2,223	Monadic Datalog and the Expressive Power of Languages for Web Information Extraction	2002	PODS	8.8092332e-05
2,615	Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto	2001	VLDB	8.2253533e-05
2,680	Efficient Processing of Expressive Node-Selecting Queries on XML Data in Secondary Storage: A Tree Automata-based Approach	2003	VLDB	8.1432169e-05
2,746	Holistic Twig Joins on Indexed XML Documents	2003	VLDB	8.0626049e-05
2,779	XQuery on SQL Hosts	2004	VLDB	8.0293306e-05
3,585	Schema-based Scheduling of Event Processors and Buffer Minimization for Queries on Structured Data Streams	2004	VLDB	7.189318e-05
3,746	On the Memory Requirements of XPath Evaluation over XML Streams	2004	PODS	7.0557724e-05

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