SODA: Generating SQL for Business Users

Summary: Keyword-driven SQL for data warehouses via graph-pattern matching on warehouse metadata. Bridges business analysts and complex schemas; generates executable SQL from natural-like queries, enabling exploration with high precision/recall. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10532
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.00013541143
Overall Rank: 1,168 | 91.88%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
206	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00034667032
535	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00020727678
567	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00019966681
1,509	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011612727
1,572	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011298251
2,321	DBPal: A Fully Pluggable NL2SQL Training Pipeline	2020	SIGMOD	9.03609e-05
2,433	ScienceBenchmark: A Complex Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language to SQL Systems	2024	VLDB	8.8285962e-05
5,281	State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.5896272e-05
5,353	An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems	2021	SIGMOD	5.5521332e-05
11,540	DBTagger: Multi-Task Learning for Keyword Mapping in NLIDBs Using Bi-Directional Recurrent Neural Networks	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,577	Analysis of Database Search Systems with THOR	2020	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,590	An Ontology-Based Conversation System for Knowledge Bases	2020	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-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
54	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00066047203
301	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00028370644
877	Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2006	SIGMOD	0.00015714014
1,009	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014653644
1,153	SQAK: Doing More with Keywords	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013642866
1,510	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00011606901
1,564	Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS	2009	SIGMOD	0.00011350495
1,591	The SDSS SkyServer - Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00011226338
3,758	Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach	2011	SIGMOD	6.7824746e-05

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