Smart Drill-Down: A New Data Exploration Operator
Summary: Introduces smart drill-down, an interactive relational exploration operator that surfaces “interesting” tuple groups as wildcard-count rules and recursively explores them under user-defined measures. Novel online sampling enables interactive execution on large databases without pre-materialization, atop existing RDBMSs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Manas Joglekar (Stanford University)
- 2. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
- 3. Aditya Parameswaran (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
BibTeX Citation
@article{joglekar_vldb15,
title = {{Smart Drill-Down: A New Data Exploration Operator}},
author = {Joglekar, Manas and Garcia-Molina, Hector and Parameswaran, Aditya},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {12},
pages = {1928--1931},
doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824086},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824086},
year = {2015}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,072 | Lux: Always-on Visualization Recommendations for Exploratory Dataframe Workflows | 2022 | VLDB | 7.7873864e-05 |
| 8,153 | The Cascading Analysts Algorithm | 2018 | SIGMOD | 5.4769543e-05 |
| 8,974 | MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.3413784e-05 |
| 10,001 | Reptile: Aggregation-level Explanations for Hierarchical Data | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.1814573e-05 |
| 10,933 | LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,098 | SDEcho: Efficient Explanation of Aggregated Sequence Difference | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 858 | Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes | 2015 | VLDB | 0.0001356511 |
| 965 | User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00012933878 |
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