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: 11401
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 6.0219844e-05
Overall Rank: 5,976 | 59.01%
DOI: 10.14778/2994509.2994520

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Minsuk Kahng (Georgia Institute of Technology)
2. Shamkant B. Navathe (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3. John T. Stasko (Georgia Institute of Technology)
4. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau (Georgia Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kahng_vldb16,
        title = {{Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases}},
        author = {Kahng, Minsuk and Navathe, Shamkant B. and Stasko, John T. and Chau, Duen Horng (Polo)},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1017--1028},
        doi = {10.14778/2994509.2994520},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2994509.2994520},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,420	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	6.7132724e-05
6,039	Guided Exploration of User Groups	2020	VLDB	5.9990875e-05
8,511	NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews	2021	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
10,933	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-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
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
179	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00026838277
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
1,098	Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration	2010	SIGMOD	0.00012179025
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
1,506	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00010545273
1,532	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00010472227
2,087	Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm	2011	VLDB	9.1914119e-05
2,160	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.0607273e-05
2,946	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.93259e-05
3,239	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.6078324e-05
3,249	Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine	2010	SIGMOD	7.5977673e-05
4,046	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.9392871e-05
6,627	Schema-free SQL	2014	SIGMOD	5.8198662e-05

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