A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries
Summary: Tutorial surveys a century of visual metaphors for expressing and understanding relational queries, motivated by opaque human- and machine-generated intent. Organizes relationally complete diagrammatic languages by mappings between visual alphabets and Relational Algebra/Calculus syntax and semantics. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Northeastern University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gatterbauer_vldb23,
title = {{A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries}},
author = {Gatterbauer, Wolfgang},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {12},
pages = {3890--3893},
doi = {10.14778/3611540.3611578},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611578},
year = {2023}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 8,407 | On The Reasonable Effectiveness of Relational Diagrams: Explaining Relational Query Patterns and the Pattern Expressiveness of Relational Languages | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.4312823e-05 |
| 10,133 | Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,422 | A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 268 | Extensible Query Processing in Starburst | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00022788687 |
| 2,946 | Gestural Query Specification | 2014 | VLDB | 7.93259e-05 |
| 4,046 | Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.9392871e-05 |
| 4,721 | QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.5444379e-05 |
| 6,463 | Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.871484e-05 |
| 6,737 | Towards Democratizing Relational Data Visualization | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.7875328e-05 |
| 7,845 | Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.5332653e-05 |
| 8,174 | Databases will Visualize Queries too | 2011 | VLDB | 5.4738201e-05 |
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