Automated Migration of Hierarchical Data to Relational Tables using Programming-by-Example

Summary: Mitra uses programming-by-example to automatically migrate hierarchical XML/JSON trees to relational tables. On 98 StackOverflow tasks, it solved 94% in 3.8s average; on real XML/JSON data, it fully automates the relational conversion. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11768
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 4.5815095e-05
Overall Rank: 8,104 | 43.68%
DOI: 10.1145/3177732.3177735

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,554	PATSQL: Efficient Synthesis of SQL Queries from Example Tables with Quick Inference of Projected Columns	2021	VLDB	5.4410603e-05
6,736	Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis	2020	VLDB	4.9417961e-05
7,458	Trinity: An Extensible Synthesis Framework for Data Science	2019	VLDB	4.7200076e-05
9,019	Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data	2024	VLDB	4.4052498e-05
9,355	GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example	2023	SIGMOD	4.3484264e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
153	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00040759404
174	Schema Mapping as Query Discovery	2000	VLDB	0.00038586435
304	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00028282278
383	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00024802484
447	Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System	2002	SIGMOD	0.00022927245
480	Translating Web Data	2002	VLDB	0.00022166928
493	Data Exchange: Getting to the Core	2003	PODS	0.00021782199
620	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.00018983367
915	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00015362622
1,067	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD	0.00014320456
1,266	Foofah: Transforming Data By Example	2017	SIGMOD	0.00012921038
1,469	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00011831156
2,081	Sample-Driven Schema Mapping	2012	SIGMOD	9.58883e-05
2,130	Characterizing Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2010	PODS	9.4784293e-05
3,872	Designing and Refining Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2011	SIGMOD	6.6737583e-05
5,097	EIRENE: Interactive Design and Refinement of Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2011	VLDB	5.6943323e-05
5,586	HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching	2009	VLDB	5.4194791e-05
9,588	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	4.3175708e-05

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