Meet Charles, big data query advisor

Summary: Charles, a query-advisor that "queries the query space", decomposes a conjunctive-predicate query's extent into meaningful segments expressed in a new Segmentation Description Language (SDL). Novel algorithm generates SDL answers optimizing homogeneity, simplicity, breadth, and entropy. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 218
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.7780208e-05
Overall Rank: 4,295 | 70.54%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Thibault Sellam (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sellam_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{Meet Charles, big data query advisor}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Sellam, Thibault and Kersten, Martin},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
2,677	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	8.2682753e-05
3,132	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	7.7246394e-05
8,153	The Cascading Analysts Algorithm	2018	SIGMOD	5.4769543e-05
11,941	QuestPro: Queries in SPARQL Through Provenance	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,096	Capturing the Laws of (Data) Nature	2015	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,281	Fast Cartography for Data Explorers	2013	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0010686205
32	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00050111008
304	Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021917388
721	Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct	2009	VLDB	0.00014631814
846	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013658824
1,532	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00010472227
2,784	Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing	2007	SIGMOD	8.1271176e-05

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