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DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases

Summary: DataGuides provide structural summaries for semistructured data, acting as on-the-fly schemas. They enable query formulation, store stats and samples, and guide optimization; implemented with incremental upkeep in Lore for browsing and planning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf4e6a427066eb8a5
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
0.00043130126
Overall Rank
50 | 99.67%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{goldman_vldb97,
        title = {{DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases}},
        author = {Goldman, Roy and Widom, Jennifer},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {436--445},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
176 Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach 2004 SIGMOD 0.00026700508
332 FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00020765078
351 Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions 2001 VLDB 0.00020251513
441 A Fast Index for Semistructured Data 2001 VLDB 0.00018215078
482 Query Optimization for XML 1999 VLDB 0.00017598607
662 Your Mediators Need Data Conversion! 1998 SIGMOD 0.00015001476
740 Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014325275
918 Accelerating XPath Location Steps 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013084437
919 Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications 2001 VLDB 0.00013083677
921 APEX: An Adaptive Path Index for XML Data 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013069413
1,016 XMill: an Efficient Compressor for XML Data 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012493064
1,023 D(K)-Index: An Adaptive Structural Summary for Graph-Structured Data 2003 SIGMOD 0.00012432693
1,118 XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents 2000 SIGMOD 0.00011951924
1,251 Semistructured Data 1997 PODS 0.00011337126
1,258 Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data 1998 SIGMOD 0.00011306716
1,315 DTD Inference for Views of XML Data 2000 PODS 0.00011058412
1,827 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.5545888e-05
1,879 Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data 1998 VLDB 9.4424426e-05
1,901 ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures 2003 SIGMOD 9.4044288e-05
2,046 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.1269888e-05
2,080 Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database 2004 VLDB 9.0761918e-05
2,127 Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data 1999 SIGMOD 9.0005009e-05
2,241 Querying Network Directories 1999 SIGMOD 8.7708234e-05
2,317 Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data (Extended Abstract) 1999 PODS 8.6477878e-05
2,376 Towards Graph Containment Search and Indexing 2007 VLDB 8.5543073e-05
2,525 Path Queries on Compressed XML 2003 VLDB 8.343313e-05
2,715 A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing 2004 VLDB 8.1017908e-05
2,797 Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data 2007 VLDB 7.9969811e-05
3,184 Structure and Value Synopses for XML Data Graphs 2002 VLDB 7.5577589e-05
3,242 Inference of Concise DTDs from XML Data 2006 VLDB 7.4991762e-05
3,490 Updates for Structure Indexes 2002 VLDB 7.2626877e-05
4,200 On Boosting Holism in XML Twig Pattern Matching Using Structural Indexing Techniques 2005 SIGMOD 6.7395481e-05
4,266 A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML 2001 PODS 6.6972871e-05
4,592 Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data 1999 PODS 6.513694e-05
5,128 iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces 2007 VLDB 6.260847e-05
5,220 Indexing Dataspaces 2007 SIGMOD 6.2220078e-05
5,421 Efficient Processing of XML Twig Queries with OR-Predicates 2004 SIGMOD 6.1361863e-05
5,490 Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML 2004 SIGMOD 6.1094192e-05
5,605 Capturing Topology in Graph Pattern Matching 2012 VLDB 6.0695806e-05
5,816 Incremental Maintenance of XML Structural Indexes 2004 SIGMOD 5.9844725e-05
5,852 An LSM-based Tuple Compaction Framework for Apache AsterixDB 2020 VLDB 5.9711113e-05
6,070 Efficient Processing of XML Path Queries Using the Disk-based F&B Index 2005 VLDB 5.896379e-05
6,497 Capturing and Querying Multiple Aspects of Semistructured Data 1999 VLDB 5.7653313e-05
6,800 ROX: Run-time Optimization of XQueries 2009 SIGMOD 5.6792071e-05
6,946 Indexing Temporal XML Documents 2004 VLDB 5.6371099e-05
7,339 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 5.5490881e-05
7,418 Structured Materialized Views for XML Queries 2007 VLDB 5.5327659e-05
7,420 A Crash Course on Database Queries 2007 PODS 5.5326094e-05
7,456 Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL 2016 SIGMOD 5.5223997e-05
7,461 Reducing Ambiguity in Json Schema Discovery 2021 SIGMOD 5.5213638e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
130 A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data 1996 SIGMOD 0.00030320165
586 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00015944965
720 TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser 1982 VLDB 0.00014528145
2,253 PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases 1996 VLDB 8.7476573e-05
2,435 OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode 1990 SIGMOD 8.4721716e-05
3,075 On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies 1994 VLDB 7.6749814e-05
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