CRIUS: User-Friendly Database Design

Summary: CRIUS enables nontechnical users to organically evolve nested schemas via spreadsheet-like drag-and-drop, while incrementally maintaining integrity constraints for data-entry guidance. A low-cost schema-changing backend and user/performance studies demonstrate usability, accuracy, and efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10501
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.3414676e-05
Overall Rank: 8,972 | 38.45%
DOI: 10.14778/1921071.1921076

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Li Qian (University of Michigan)
2. Kristen LeFevre (University of Michigan)
3. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{qian_vldb11,
        title = {{CRIUS: User-Friendly Database Design}},
        author = {Qian, Li and LeFevre, Kristen and Jagadish, H. V.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {2},
        pages = {81--92},
        doi = {10.14778/1921071.1921076},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1921071.1921076},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,046	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.9392871e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00069513174
137	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00029877792
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
1,056	A Normal Form for Nested Relations	1985	PODS	0.00012388199
2,198	A Recursive Algebra and Query Optimization for Nested Relations	1989	SIGMOD	8.9680897e-05
3,502	Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste	2009	CIDR	7.3592947e-05
4,334	Managing and Querying Transaction-time Databases under Schema Evolution	2008	VLDB	6.7557503e-05
4,487	Reasoning about Nested Functional Dependencies	1999	PODS	6.6686357e-05
6,771	Efficient Discovery of XML Data Redundancies	2006	VLDB	5.7783105e-05

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