Do-It-Yourself Database-Driven Web Applications
Summary: app2you: hosted DIY platform letting non-programmer business owners build and evolve database-backed web apps via an SQL-expressive core or a constrained WYSIWYG-generated frontend. Paper analyzes the expressiveness vs ease-of-specification tradeoff, design choices enabling business-architect-driven page/access/behavior specification, and situates app2you relative to Rails/WebML/Ning. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Keith Kowalzcykowski (app2you, Inc.)
- 2. Kian Win Ong (University of California San Diego)
- 3. Kevin Keliang Zhao (University of California San Diego)
- 4. Alin Deutsch (University of California San Diego)
- 5. Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California San Diego)
- 6. Michalis Petropoulos (State University of New York at Buffalo)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kowalzcykowski_cidr09,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '09},
title = {{Do-It-Yourself Database-Driven Web Applications}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Kowalzcykowski, Keith and Ong, Kian Win and Zhao, Kevin Keliang and Deutsch, Alin and Papakonstantinou, Yannis and Petropoulos, Michalis},
year = {2009}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,046 | Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.9392871e-05 |
| 12,359 | The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions | 2011 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,982 | WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications | 2008 | VLDB | 6.9745342e-05 |
| 4,426 | A Chase Too Far? | 2000 | SIGMOD | 6.7098324e-05 |
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