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Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later

Summary: Ten years later, generic schema matching is treated as an independent problem, with taxonomy, a new matching algorithm, and a comparative evaluation framework. Surveys post-2001 advances, commercial deployments, and data-integration directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10490
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00010568859
Overall Rank
1,497 | 89.74%
DOI
10.14778/3402707.3402708

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{bernstein_vldb11,
        title = {{Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later}},
        author = {Bernstein, Philip A. and Madhavan, Jayant and Rahm, Erhard},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {695--706},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402708},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402708},
        year = {2011}
}

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367 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00019979463
2,322 Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources 2013 VLDB 8.7526172e-05
2,415 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.6069635e-05
3,301 Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality 2017 VLDB 7.5408662e-05
3,713 Generating Concise Entity Matching Rules 2017 SIGMOD 7.176496e-05
7,232 Saga: A Scalable Framework for Optimizing Data Cleaning Pipelines for Machine Learning Applications 2023 SIGMOD 5.6659017e-05
7,865 Generating Succinct Descriptions of Database Schemata for Cost-Efficient Prompting of Large Language Models 2024 VLDB 5.5282752e-05
8,491 Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus 2017 SIGMOD 5.414689e-05
9,436 GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example 2023 SIGMOD 5.2692207e-05
9,790 Meta-Mappings for Schema Mapping Reuse 2019 VLDB 5.220833e-05
10,003 Adaptive Schema Databases 2017 CIDR 5.1814573e-05
10,637 A Quantum-Leap into Schema Matching: Beyond 1-to-1 Matchings 2025 PODS 5.093636e-05
10,724 LLM-Matcher: A Name-Based Schema Matching Tool using Large Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,903 (Artificial) Mind over Matter: Integrating Humans and Algorithms in Solving Matching Problems 2018 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,342 DrillBeyond: Enabling Business Analysts to Explore the Web of Open Data 2012 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
180 Schema Mapping as Query Discovery 2000 VLDB 0.00026772368
263 Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach 2001 SIGMOD 0.0002305693
297 Generic Schema Matching with Cupid 2001 VLDB 0.00022157284
340 Crawling the Hidden Web 2001 VLDB 0.00020711119
390 COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches 2002 VLDB 0.00019382486
762 Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings 2007 SIGMOD 0.00014231163
778 Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces 2003 SIGMOD 0.00014102198
791 An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web 2004 SIGMOD 0.00013995705
1,158 Schema and Ontology Matching with COMA++ 2005 SIGMOD 0.00011899424
1,194 Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve 2005 VLDB 0.00011730556
1,426 Inverting Schema Mappings 2006 PODS 0.00010814403
1,554 Google’s Deep-Web Crawl 2008 VLDB 0.00010372108
1,770 Supporting Executable Mappings in Model Management 2005 SIGMOD 9.7967596e-05
2,007 Merging Models Based on Given Correspondences 2003 VLDB 9.3144511e-05
2,339 Quasi-inverses of Schema Mappings 2007 PODS 8.7249825e-05
2,352 Implementing Mapping Composition 2006 VLDB 8.7086189e-05
2,464 Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases 2007 SIGMOD 8.5480977e-05
2,538 Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios 2005 VLDB 8.4548936e-05
2,842 Incremental Schema Matching 2006 VLDB 8.0624613e-05
4,009 Flexible String Matching Against Large Databases in Practice 2004 VLDB 6.9612537e-05
4,164 OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit 2010 SIGMOD 6.8600415e-05
5,492 HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching 2009 VLDB 6.2001088e-05
5,637 Interactive Generation of Integrated Schemas 2008 SIGMOD 6.1391704e-05
6,252 Putting Context into Schema Matching 2006 VLDB 5.941182e-05
6,925 A Gauss Function Based Approach for Unbalanced Ontology Matching 2009 SIGMOD 5.7383878e-05
7,319 AgreementMaker: Efficient Matching for Large Real-World Schemas and Ontologies 2009 VLDB 5.6455656e-05
12,894 Panel: Is Generic Metadata Management Feasible? 2000 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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