Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB

Summary: Native XQuery processing embedded in the Oracle ORDBMS kernel, tightly coupling XQuery with the SQL/XML engine. Architecture for native XQuery compilation, optimization, and execution, leveraging XMLQuery() and XMLTable to extend SQL/XML with XQuery capabilities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h46c4ad0c78e6d923
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.9958891e-05
Overall Rank: 5,775 | 61.19%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066259

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Zhen Hua Liu (Oracle)
2. Muralidhar Krishnaprasad (Oracle)
3. Vikas Arora (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod05,
        title = {{Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB}},
        author = {Liu, Zhen Hua and Krishnaprasad, Muralidhar and Arora, Vikas},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066259},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066259},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,497	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010477876
6,688	Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance	2007	CIDR	5.7060345e-05
7,174	Towards An Enterprise XML Architecture	2005	SIGMOD	5.5915842e-05
12,725	Pay-As-You-Go - An Adaptive Approach to Provide Full Context-Aware Text Search over Document Content	2010	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,829	XPEDIA: XML Processing for Data Integration	2009	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,855	Grouping and Optimization of XPath Expressions in DB2 pureXML	2008	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,879	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,933	Effective and Efficient Update of XML in RDBMS	2007	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,992	Efficient XSLT Processing in Relational Database System	2006	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
86	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00035793969
109	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst	1992	SIGMOD	0.00032757423
544	Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents	2000	VLDB	0.00016622134
1,190	Answering XML Queries over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2001	VLDB	0.00011586909
1,235	A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding	2003	SIGMOD	0.00011400492
1,268	Querying XML Views of Relational Data	2001	VLDB	0.00011263863
1,539	The BEA/XQRL Streaming XQuery Processor	2003	VLDB	0.00010311535
2,779	XQuery on SQL Hosts	2004	VLDB	8.0255444e-05
4,808	XML Schemas in Oracle XML DB	2003	VLDB	6.4053843e-05
5,644	Implementing XQuery 1.0: The Galax Experience	2003	VLDB	6.0514761e-05
8,506	Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB	2004	VLDB	5.327224e-05

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