Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database

Summary: Native XML storage on disk with tree-structured pages in DB2 UDB, avoiding XML-relational mappings. XML indexes, full XQuery, SQL/XML, XML Schema, and a parallel bulk loader enable a true hybrid DBMS balancing XML with relational data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hed7d6178aa0a8af6
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 6.6248842e-05
Overall Rank: 4,380 | 70.57%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Matthias Nicola (IBM Silicon Valley Lab)
2. Bert van der Linden (IBM Silicon Valley Lab)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nicola_vldb05,
        title = {{Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database}},
        author = {Nicola, Matthias and van der Linden, Bert},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        volume = {31},
        pages = {1164--1168},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,360	An XML Transaction Processing Benchmark	2007	SIGMOD	6.6367101e-05
9,273	A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler	2007	SIGMOD	5.2032182e-05
12,819	Binary XML Storage and Query Processing in Oracle 11g	2009	VLDB	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
12,934	Schema Advisor for Hybrid Relational-XML DBMS	2007	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,993	On the Path to Efficient XML Queries	2006	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,235	A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding	2003	SIGMOD	0.00011400492
1,784	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.6466168e-05
2,082	Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database	2004	VLDB	9.0718964e-05
2,715	A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing	2004	VLDB	8.0979555e-05

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