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XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management

Summary: XMark proposes a standardized XML data-management benchmark with a scalable document corpus and targeted, diverse queries. It enables cross-platform evaluation of XML query processors, combining validation, performance, and optimization in a concise workload. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hec4502d25095dcdf
Venue
VLDB
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00035793969
Overall Rank
86 | 99.43%
DOI
10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50096-2

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{schmidt_vldb02,
        title = {{XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management}},
        author = {Schmidt, Albrecht and Waas, Florian and Manolescu, Ioana and Kersten, Martin and Busse, Ralph and Carey, Michael J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50096-2},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50096-2},
        year = {2002}
}

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1,497 MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine 2006 SIGMOD 0.00010477876
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3,816 Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps 2003 VLDB 7.0049185e-05
3,870 Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing 2012 SIGMOD 6.9534718e-05
4,001 Tree Logical Classes for Efficient Evaluation of XQuery 2004 SIGMOD 6.8578225e-05
4,360 An XML Transaction Processing Benchmark 2007 SIGMOD 6.6367101e-05
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4,742 High-Performance Complex Event Processing over XML Streams 2012 SIGMOD 6.4405207e-05
4,768 Generating XML Structure Using Examples and Constraints 2008 VLDB 6.4239472e-05
4,886 One SQL to Rule Them All – an Efficient and Syntactically Idiomatic Approach to Management of Streams and Tables 2019 SIGMOD 6.3680255e-05
4,964 Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation 2010 VLDB 6.335593e-05
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5,258 Pathfinder: XQuery—The Relational Way 2005 VLDB 6.2050036e-05
5,466 Distributed Query Evaluation with Performance Guarantees 2007 SIGMOD 6.1192481e-05
5,592 Destabilizers and Independence of XML Updates 2010 VLDB 6.0708266e-05
5,775 Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB 2005 SIGMOD 5.9958891e-05
5,893 Pattern tree algebras: sets or sequences? 2005 VLDB 5.9538443e-05
6,073 Efficient Processing of XML Path Queries Using the Disk-based F&B Index 2005 VLDB 5.8935926e-05
6,742 Information Preserving XML Schema Embedding 2005 VLDB 5.6901377e-05
7,088 Indexing for Subtree Similarity-Search using Edit Distance 2013 SIGMOD 5.5997256e-05
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7,463 M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads 2023 VLDB 5.5191578e-05
7,554 From Regular Expressions to Nested Words: Unifying Languages and Query Execution for Relational and XML Sequences 2010 VLDB 5.4955286e-05
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7,759 XQuery Reloaded 2009 VLDB 5.4567128e-05
7,777 Adding Logical Operators to Tree Pattern Queries on Graph-Structured Data 2012 VLDB 5.4532403e-05
7,896 Contest of XML Lock Protocols 2006 VLDB 5.4301275e-05
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8,106 MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data 2013 SIGMOD 5.3917406e-05
8,152 Incremental Maintenance of Path-Expression Views 2005 SIGMOD 5.3884533e-05
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Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
141 Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities 1999 VLDB 0.0002928095
166 On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems 2001 SIGMOD 0.00027241844
383 Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL 1998 VLDB 0.00019474868
516 XQuery: A Query Language for XML 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001694914
1,104 The OO7 Benchmark 1993 SIGMOD 0.00011997981
1,171 Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2000 VLDB 0.00011697392
4,564 The BUCKY Object-Relational Benchmark 1997 SIGMOD 6.5307685e-05
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