Qunits: queried units for database search

Summary: Introduce qunits—independent queried units representing canonical query results, decoupling declarative DB predicate semantics from presentation/aggregation. Keyword search is executed over a corpus of qunits treated as IR documents, enabling standard ranking models instead of ad-hoc DB ranking; prototype validates feasibility. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 124
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 4.6901111e-05
Overall Rank: 7,616 | 47.07%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Arnab Nandi
2. H.V. Jagadish

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,962	Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	5.2499162e-05
6,711	Schema-free SQL	2014	SIGMOD	4.9485222e-05
12,198	Keyword Search on Form Results	2011	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
53	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00065993143
73	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.0005840064
186	Proximity Search in Databases	1998	VLDB	0.0003618341
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030237174
320	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00027574254
337	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00027002505
547	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.00020372992
994	Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014745808
1,110	Materialized View Selection and Maintenance Using Multi-Query Optimization	2001	SIGMOD	0.00013902997
1,186	Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve	2005	VLDB	0.00013432464
1,270	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	0.00012911456
1,840	Identifying Meaningful Return Information for XML Keyword Search	2007	SIGMOD	0.00010350281
2,096	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.544914e-05
4,046	Querying Complex Structured Databases	2007	VLDB	6.5021302e-05
7,637	Predicate-based Indexing of Enterprise Web Applications	2007	CIDR	4.6861004e-05
7,638	Unifying Data and Domain Knowledge Using Virtual Views	2007	VLDB	4.6861004e-05

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