Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases

Summary: ETable proposes a presentation-level data model that embeds one-to-many and many-to-many relations by letting cells contain sets of entity references. This enables interactive, incremental join construction and ER-level navigation directly on the enriched table, improving task speed and learnability vs a GUI builder. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11213
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.2325754e-05
Overall Rank: 6,054 | 57.89%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,758	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9422515e-05
5,472	Guided Exploration of User Groups	2020	VLDB	5.4888146e-05
8,174	NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews	2021	VLDB	4.568186e-05
10,685	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 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
206	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00034667032
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030223397
883	Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015656548
1,023	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00014611863
1,510	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00011606901
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
1,907	Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm	2011	VLDB	0.00010136636
2,091	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.5608989e-05
2,652	Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine	2010	SIGMOD	8.3662745e-05
3,188	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.4117439e-05
3,450	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.0824082e-05
4,365	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.2542811e-05
6,710	Schema-free SQL	2014	SIGMOD	4.9526147e-05

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