Adaptive Schema Databases

Summary: ASDs move schema design into the DBMS: ingest semi-/unstructured data via pluggable extraction/integration and iteratively discover and adapt multiple per-user schema workspaces from queries and user feedback. Novelty: use probabilistic DBs to encode extraction/schema ambiguity and report context-dependent schema/answer quality; prototype in Mimir. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 309
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.1814573e-05
Overall Rank: 10,003 | 31.38%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. William Spoth (State University of New York at Buffalo)
2. Bahareh Sadat Arabi (Illinois Institute of Technology)
3. Eric S. Chan (Oracle)
4. Dieter Gawlick (Oracle)
5. Adel Ghoneimy (Oracle)
6. Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology)
7. Beda Hammerschmidt (Oracle)
8. Oliver Kennedy (State University of New York at Buffalo)
9. Seokki Lee (Illinois Institute of Technology)
10. Zhen Hua Liu (Oracle)
11. Xing Niu (Illinois Institute of Technology)
12. Ying Yang (State University of New York at Buffalo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{spoth_cidr17,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '17},
        title = {{Adaptive Schema Databases}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Spoth, William and Arabi, Bahareh Sadat and Chan, Eric S. and Gawlick, Dieter and Ghoneimy, Adel and Glavic, Boris and Hammerschmidt, Beda and Kennedy, Oliver and Lee, Seokki and Liu, Zhen Hua and Niu, Xing and Yang, Ying},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,748	To Not Miss the Forest for the Trees - A Holistic Approach for Explaining Missing Answers over Nested Data	2021	SIGMOD	5.5528084e-05
11,356	Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data	2023	CIDR	5.093636e-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
159	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00028129426
184	DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design	2004	VLDB	0.00026256101
196	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00025780596
524	Automatic SQL Tuning in Oracle 10g	2004	VLDB	0.00017120666
620	On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views	2002	PODS	0.00015703409
768	Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach	2005	SIGMOD	0.00014173242
866	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013519288
929	Materialized View Selection and Maintenance Using Multi-Query Optimization	2001	SIGMOD	0.00013152103
1,305	Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces	2007	SIGMOD	0.00011235196
1,497	Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later	2011	VLDB	0.00010568859
1,679	Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores	2009	SIGMOD	0.00010029136
2,038	Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench	2008	VLDB	9.2727673e-05
3,495	Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources	2015	VLDB	7.3636386e-05
4,014	Automatic Generation of Normalized Relational Schemas from Nested Key-Value Data	2016	SIGMOD	6.956076e-05
5,971	Lenses: An On-Demand Approach to ETL	2015	VLDB	6.0243066e-05
7,312	Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL	2016	SIGMOD	5.6480976e-05
8,131	Applying WebTables in Practice	2015	CIDR	5.4816838e-05
9,216	Management of Flexible Schema Data in RDBMSs - Opportunities and Limitations for NoSQL	2015	CIDR	5.3051647e-05

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