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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
0.00042977538
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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176 Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach 2004 SIGMOD 0.00026634326
333 FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00020712452
352 Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions 2001 VLDB 0.00020179814
445 A Fast Index for Semistructured Data 2001 VLDB 0.0001815112
483 Query Optimization for XML 1999 VLDB 0.00017537362
665 Your Mediators Need Data Conversion! 1998 SIGMOD 0.00014947072
744 Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014275788
919 Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications 2001 VLDB 0.00013042589
922 Accelerating XPath Location Steps 2002 SIGMOD 0.0001303574
926 APEX: An Adaptive Path Index for XML Data 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013025014
1,018 XMill: an Efficient Compressor for XML Data 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012451992
1,027 D(K)-Index: An Adaptive Structural Summary for Graph-Structured Data 2003 SIGMOD 0.00012391703
1,121 XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents 2000 SIGMOD 0.00011920252
1,258 Semistructured Data 1997 PODS 0.00011301839
1,262 Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data 1998 SIGMOD 0.00011277501
1,326 DTD Inference for Views of XML Data 2000 PODS 0.0001101664
1,837 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.5210079e-05
1,890 Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data 1998 VLDB 9.4085684e-05
1,912 ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures 2003 SIGMOD 9.3690697e-05
2,058 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.0944201e-05
2,093 Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database 2004 VLDB 9.0419151e-05
2,140 Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data 1999 SIGMOD 8.9688891e-05
2,259 Querying Network Directories 1999 SIGMOD 8.7384901e-05
2,331 Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data (Extended Abstract) 1999 PODS 8.6151201e-05
2,387 Towards Graph Containment Search and Indexing 2007 VLDB 8.5236741e-05
2,533 Path Queries on Compressed XML 2003 VLDB 8.3132165e-05
2,726 A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing 2004 VLDB 8.0711806e-05
2,800 Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data 2007 VLDB 7.9784397e-05
3,195 Structure and Value Synopses for XML Data Graphs 2002 VLDB 7.530952e-05
3,260 Inference of Concise DTDs from XML Data 2006 VLDB 7.4717337e-05
3,497 Updates for Structure Indexes 2002 VLDB 7.2356454e-05
4,219 On Boosting Holism in XML Twig Pattern Matching Using Structural Indexing Techniques 2005 SIGMOD 6.7141046e-05
4,281 A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML 2001 PODS 6.6721591e-05
4,609 Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data 1999 PODS 6.4891057e-05
5,152 iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces 2007 VLDB 6.2375943e-05
5,247 Indexing Dataspaces 2007 SIGMOD 6.1985096e-05
5,443 Efficient Processing of XML Twig Queries with OR-Predicates 2004 SIGMOD 6.1130037e-05
5,513 Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML 2004 SIGMOD 6.0866688e-05
5,619 Capturing Topology in Graph Pattern Matching 2012 VLDB 6.0468899e-05
5,831 Incremental Maintenance of XML Structural Indexes 2004 SIGMOD 5.9624819e-05
5,867 An LSM-based Tuple Compaction Framework for Apache AsterixDB 2020 VLDB 5.9486081e-05
6,087 Efficient Processing of XML Path Queries Using the Disk-based F&B Index 2005 VLDB 5.8741996e-05
6,515 Capturing and Querying Multiple Aspects of Semistructured Data 1999 VLDB 5.7435622e-05
6,816 ROX: Run-time Optimization of XQueries 2009 SIGMOD 5.6593309e-05
6,968 Indexing Temporal XML Documents 2004 VLDB 5.6158112e-05
7,362 Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs 2007 VLDB 5.5281595e-05
7,441 Structured Materialized Views for XML Queries 2007 VLDB 5.5118606e-05
7,442 A Crash Course on Database Queries 2007 PODS 5.5117047e-05
7,479 Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL 2016 SIGMOD 5.5015337e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
131 A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data 1996 SIGMOD 0.000302173
589 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00015887069
721 TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser 1982 VLDB 0.00014474259
2,267 PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases 1996 VLDB 8.7152778e-05
2,445 OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode 1990 SIGMOD 8.4408459e-05
3,086 On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies 1994 VLDB 7.6466304e-05
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