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: 3225
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.4129456e-05
Overall Rank: 8,505 | 41.65%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304585

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Authors

1. Michael Böhlen (Aalborg University)
2. Linas Bukauskas (Aalborg University)
3. Curtis Dyreson (Aalborg University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bohlen_sigmod99,
        title = {{The Jungle Database Search Engine}},
        author = {Böhlen, Michael and Bukauskas, Linas and Dyreson, Curtis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304585},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304585},
        year = {1999}
}

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6,879	Oracle8i Index-Organized Table and its Application to New Domains	2000	VLDB	5.7475732e-05

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