CS267: Seminar in Databases
Fall 2009





 Subject: Recent Advances in XML Query Processing (and other topics)
 

Instructor:

 

Papers to be discussed:

S. Al-Khalifa, H.V. Jagadish, N. Koudas, J.M. Patel, D. Srivastava, Y.Wu: Structural Joins: A Primitive for Efficient XML Query Pattern Matching. Proc. ICDE Conf. 2002. structural-joins.pdf

Nicolas Bruno, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, "Holistic Twig Joins: Optimal XML Pattern Matching", Proc. of ACM SIGMOD Conf. 2002. twig.pdf

Haifeng Jiang, Wei Wang, Hongjun Lu, Jeffrey Xu Yu, "Holistic Twig Joins on Indexed XML Documents", Proc. of VLDB Conf., 2003. index-twig.pdf

Songting Chen, Hua-Gang Li, Jun'ichi Tatemura, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selçuk Candan, "Twig2Stack: Bottom-up Processing of Generalized-Tree-Pattern Queries over XML Documents" Proc. VLDB Conf., 2006. twig2stack.pdf

Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen, Jens Teubner, "Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps", Proc. of VLDB Conf. 2003. staircase.pdf

Zografoula Vagena, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Vassilis J. Tsotras, "Efficient Handling of Positional Predicates Within XML Query Processing", Proc. XSym 2005. positional.pdf

Ning Zhang, M. Tamer Ozsu, Varun Kacholia, "A Succinct Physical Storage Scheme for Single-Pass Evaluation of Next-of-Kin Path Queries in XML", Proc ICDE Conf. 2003. nok.pdf

R. Goldman and J. Widom, "DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases. Proc. of VLDB Conf. 1997. dataguide.pdf

Raghav Kaushik, Philip Bohannon, Jeffrey Naughton, Henry Korth, "Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries",  Proc. SIGMOD Conf. 2002. cover-index.pdf

Chin-Wan Chung, Jun-Ki Min, Kyuseok Shim, "APEX: an adaptive path index for XML data", SIGMOD Conference 2002. apex.pdf

Raghav Kaushik, Pradeep Shenoy, Philip Bohannon, Ehud Gudes: Exploiting Local Similarity for Indexing Paths in Graph-Structured Data. ICDE 2002: 129-140. ak-index.pdf
 
Ning Zhang, M. Tamer Ozsu, Ihab F. Ilyas, Ashraf Aboulnaga: FIX: Feature-based Indexing Technique for XML Documents. VLDB 2006. fix.pdf

Beverly Yang, Marcus Fontoura, Eugene J. Shekita, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Kevin S. Beyer, "Virtual cursors for XML joins", Proc. CIKM Conf. 2004. virtual-cursors
 
Haixun Wang, Sanghyun Park, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu, "ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures",
Proc. of ACM SIGMOD Conf. 2003. vist.pdf

Praveen R. Rao, Bongki Moon, "PRIX: Indexing and Querying XML Using Prufer Sequences", Proc. of ICDE Conf. 2004. prix.pdf

Haixun Wang, Xiaofeng Meng, "On the Sequencing of Tree Structures for XML Indexing", Proc. ICDE Conf. 2005. tree-sequencing

Mirella Moura Moro, Zografoula Vagena, Vassilis J. Tsotras: Tree-Pattern Queries on a Lightweight XML Processor. VLDB 2005. comparison.pdf

Shirish Tatikonda, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Matthew Goyder: LCS-TRIM: Dynamic Programming Meets XML Indexing and Querying. VLDB 2007. lcs-trim.pdf


------------ XML Filtering -----------------------
Yanlei Diao, Mehmet Altinel, Michael J. Franklin, Hao Zhang, Peter M. Ficher, "Path Sharing and Predicate Evaluation for High-Performance XML Filtering", ACM TODS 2003. yfilter.pdf

Joonho Kwon, Praveen Rao, Bongki Moon, Sukho Lee, "FiST: Scalable XML Document Filtering by Sequencing Twig Patterns", VLDB 2005: 217-228. FiST.pdf

Mirella M. Moro, Petko Bakalov, Vassilis J. Tsotras, "Early Profile Pruning on XML-aware Publish/Subscribe Systems", VLDB 2007: 866-877. profile.pdf


--------------XQuery Evaluation----------------------------------
Zhimin Chen, H. V. Jagadish, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Stelios Paparizos, "From Tree Patterns to Generalized Tree Patterns: On Efficient Evaluation of XQuery". VLDB 2003. generalized-tree-patterns.pdf

Philippe Michiels, George A. Mihaila, Jerome Simeon: Put a Tree Pattern in Your Algebra. ICDE 2007. tree-pattern-algebra.pdf

Peter A. Boncz, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen, Stefan Manegold, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner, "MonetDB/XQuery: a fast XQuery processor powered by a relational engine". SIGMOD Conference 2006. monetDB-xquery.pdf


------------------ Middleware --------------------------
R. Fagin. "Combining fuzzy information: an overview." SIGMOD Record, Vol 31,No 2, June 2002, pp. 109-118. fagin-sigrec02.pdf

Ihab F. Ilyas, George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman. "A Survey of Top-k Query Processing Techniques in Relational Database Systems", ACM Computing Surveys, (to appear). IlyasTopkSurvey.pdf