PADS: An End-to-end System for Processing Ad Hoc Data

Summary: PADS is an end-to-end system to describe data declaratively with a rich dependent-type language for base types, records, arrays, unions, enums, and constraints. Compiler emits parsers, profiling tools, XML views, and XQuery access via Galax, plus interactive front end. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3806
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 12,507 | 13.08%
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1,671	Gigascope: High Performance Network Monitoring with an SQL Interface	2002	SIGMOD	0.00010944194

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