Summary Graphs for Relational Database Schemas

Summary: Introduces summary graphs that extract the most informative tables and join paths relevant to user-specified query tables under size constraints. An information-theoretic objective, transitive-closure metaedges, and an NP-hard ILP formulation enable compact, high-quality schema overviews. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10509
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 7.2980153e-05
Overall Rank: 3,572 | 75.50%
DOI: 10.14778/3402707.3402728

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Authors

1. Xiaoyan Yang (National University of Singapore)
2. Cecilia M. Procopiuc (AT&T)
3. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yang_vldb11,
        title = {{Summary Graphs for Relational Database Schemas}},
        author = {Yang, Xiaoyan and Procopiuc, Cecilia M. and Srivastava, Divesh},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {899--910},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402728},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402728},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,922	QUEST: A Keyword Search System for Relational Data based on Semantic and Machine Learning Techniques	2013	VLDB	9.479259e-05
2,631	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	8.3231158e-05
6,201	Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	5.9455064e-05
7,501	TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data	2025	SIGMOD	5.6029996e-05
9,253	Cost-efficient Data Acquisition on Online Data Marketplaces for Correlation Analysis	2019	VLDB	5.297659e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
272	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00022695855
432	Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser	2002	SIGMOD	0.00018572055
808	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013884332
1,521	On Multi-Column Foreign Key Discovery	2010	VLDB	0.00010506299
1,532	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00010472227
1,702	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.9697258e-05
4,228	Discovering Topical Structures of Databases	2008	SIGMOD	6.819835e-05
8,405	Information Theory for Data Management	2010	SIGMOD	5.4323037e-05

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