Databases Unbound: Querying All of the World's Bytes with AI

Summary: Leverages generative AI to convert text, images, and video into queryable semantics, extending DBMS reach to “all the world's bytes.” Argues for preserving declarative relational abstractions to tackle scalability, correctness, and reliability; shows document/video prototypes and outlines research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13699
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.385675e-05
Overall Rank: 5,658 | 60.64%
DOI: 10.14778/3685800.3685916

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,705	AOP: Automated and Interactive LLM Pipeline Orchestration for Answering Complex Queries	2025	CIDR	4.6730494e-05
9,032	Sphinteract: Resolving Ambiguities in NL2SQL Through User Interaction	2025	VLDB	4.4039656e-05
9,729	Semantic Integrity Constraints: Declarative Guardrails for AI-Augmented Data Processing Systems	2025	VLDB	4.2942813e-05
10,144	Beyond Relational: Semantic-Aware Multi-Modal Analytics with LLM-Native Query Optimization	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,325	KEN: An Execution Engine for Unstructured Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
249	Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People	2011	CIDR	0.00030740523
316	NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00027988668
1,082	CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners	2024	CIDR	0.00014214232
1,116	Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes	2024	VLDB	0.00013890154
1,187	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00013443639
1,388	MIRIS: Fast Object Track Queries in Video	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012260926
1,885	CrowdDB: Query Processing with the VLDB Crowd	2011	VLDB	0.0001021098
2,809	Deco: A System for Declarative Crowdsourcing	2012	VLDB	8.0869896e-05
2,836	Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning	2023	VLDB	8.0443826e-05
3,995	How Large Language Models Will Disrupt Data Management	2023	VLDB	6.5513237e-05
4,501	TASTI: Semantic Indexes for Machine Learning-based Queries over Unstructured Data	2022	SIGMOD	6.137686e-05
4,865	OTIF: Efficient Tracker Pre-processing over Large Video Datasets	2022	SIGMOD	5.8684353e-05

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