The Jungle Database Search Engine

Summary: Jungle, a DB search engine, connects to remote DBs via JDBC, extracting/indexing data and metadata to form a searchable store. It uses AQUA, a natural, structure-agnostic query language, to evaluate and optimize queries on the indexed information. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3163
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 4.5511239e-05
Overall Rank: 8,246 | 42.64%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,597	Oracle8i Index-Organized Table and its Application to New Domains	2000	VLDB	4.9982502e-05

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