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: 10533
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.00013531301
Overall Rank: 1,168 | 91.89%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
205	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00034651121
535	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00020718836
565	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00019945986
1,502	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011614522
1,575	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011288804
2,325	DBPal: A Fully Pluggable NL2SQL Training Pipeline	2020	SIGMOD	9.0277894e-05
2,435	ScienceBenchmark: A Complex Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language to SQL Systems	2024	VLDB	8.8218963e-05
5,282	State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.5846982e-05
5,363	An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems	2021	SIGMOD	5.5467941e-05
11,544	DBTagger: Multi-Task Learning for Keyword Mapping in NLIDBs Using Bi-Directional Recurrent Neural Networks	2021	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,581	Analysis of Database Search Systems with THOR	2020	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,594	An Ontology-Based Conversation System for Knowledge Bases	2020	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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
53	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00065993143
302	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00028343691
873	Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2006	SIGMOD	0.0001570125
1,010	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014644808
1,153	SQAK: Doing More with Keywords	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013633055
1,506	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.0001159691
1,564	Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS	2009	SIGMOD	0.00011340407
1,592	The SDSS SkyServer - Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00011215586
3,766	Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach	2011	SIGMOD	6.7753484e-05

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