DataSpread: Unifying Databases and Spreadsheets
Summary: DataSpread couples an Excel front end with PostgreSQL, combining spreadsheets’ schema-free, ad-hoc exploration with database scalability and SQL. Key challenges include reconciling cells, tuples, schemas, panes, and bidirectional updates. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Mangesh Bendre (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 2. Bofan Sun (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 3. Ding Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 4. Xinyan Zhou (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 5. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 6. Aditya Parameswaran (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
BibTeX Citation
@article{bendre_vldb15,
title = {{DataSpread: Unifying Databases and Spreadsheets}},
author = {Bendre, Mangesh and Sun, Bofan and Zhang, Ding and Zhou, Xinyan and Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan and Parameswaran, Aditya},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {12},
pages = {2000--2003},
doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824121},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824121},
year = {2015}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,431 | Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00010807221 |
| 5,931 | Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it | 2020 | CIDR | 6.0369708e-05 |
| 6,955 | DataChat: An Intuitive and Collaborative Data Analytics Platform | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.7303405e-05 |
| 8,510 | Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses | 2022 | VLDB | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 10,761 | Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,853 | Anti-Freeze for Large and Complex Spreadsheets: Asynchronous Formula Computation | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,886 | Enabling Data Science for the Majority | 2019 | VLDB | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,687 | Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00010005718 |
| 3,249 | Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine | 2010 | SIGMOD | 7.5977673e-05 |
| 4,477 | Query By Excel | 2005 | VLDB | 6.6793744e-05 |
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