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Making Database Systems Usable

Summary: Pinpoints five usability pain points in today's databases and outlines a usability research agenda. Proposes a presentation data model with a schema-later approach, emphasizing direct data manipulation, provenance, and cross-model consistency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3835
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2007
Pagerank
0.00030223397
Overall Rank
257 | 98.22%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
492 Query by Output 2009 SIGMOD 0.00021974699
690 An Analytical Study of Large SPARQL Query Logs 2018 VLDB 0.00018099792
883 Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration 2010 SIGMOD 0.00015656548
923 Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities 2008 SIGMOD 0.0001527609
1,009 SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL 2011 VLDB 0.00014653644
1,125 How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013845652
1,343 NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012482538
1,509 Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011612727
1,510 Summarizing Relational Databases 2009 VLDB 0.00011606901
1,907 Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm 2011 VLDB 0.00010136636
2,073 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 9.6142791e-05
2,078 Sample-Driven Schema Mapping 2012 SIGMOD 9.599707e-05
2,714 WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications 2008 VLDB 8.2461058e-05
2,773 JSON Data Management – Supporting Schema-less Development in RDBMS 2014 SIGMOD 8.1386587e-05
2,982 FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering 2018 SIGMOD 7.7801984e-05
3,095 Answering Why-not Questions on Reverse Top-k Queries 2015 VLDB 7.5692859e-05
3,188 Gestural Query Specification 2014 VLDB 7.4117439e-05
3,202 VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation 2015 VLDB 7.3911717e-05
3,450 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.0824082e-05
3,940 NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data 2012 VLDB 6.6153423e-05
4,105 SocialScope: Enabling Information Discovery on Social Content Sites 2009 CIDR 6.4478049e-05
4,365 Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results 2016 SIGMOD 6.2542811e-05
4,635 Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs 2019 SIGMOD 6.033398e-05
4,834 Querying Without Keyboards 2013 CIDR 5.8912496e-05
5,208 Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples 2017 SIGMOD 5.6296265e-05
5,376 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 5.5417421e-05
5,452 QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster 2020 SIGMOD 5.4999397e-05
5,473 Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis 2020 SIGMOD 5.4885366e-05
5,560 PI2: End-to-end Interactive Visualization Interface Generation from Queries 2022 SIGMOD 5.4336252e-05
5,826 Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals 2023 VLDB 5.3124507e-05
5,892 GestureQuery: A Multitouch Database Query Interface 2013 VLDB 5.2864465e-05
5,985 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 5.2442779e-05
6,054 Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases 2016 VLDB 5.2325754e-05
6,444 Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines 2018 SIGMOD 5.059132e-05
6,710 Schema-free SQL 2014 SIGMOD 4.9526147e-05
7,007 Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL 2016 SIGMOD 4.8653116e-05
7,615 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 4.6946145e-05
8,056 Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection 2014 VLDB 4.5946189e-05
8,111 Databases will Visualize Queries too* 2011 VLDB 4.5842786e-05
8,174 NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews 2021 VLDB 4.568186e-05
8,726 GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases 2010 SIGMOD 4.4593116e-05
8,777 CRIUS: User-Friendly Database Design 2011 VLDB 4.4545267e-05
9,696 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 4.3023337e-05
11,691 Enabling Data Science for the Majority 2019 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,020 The Case for Personal Data-Driven Decision Making 2014 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,187 DBWiki: A Structured Wiki for Curated Data and Collaborative Data Management 2011 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,233 Pay-As-You-Go - An Adaptive Approach to Provide Full Context-Aware Text Search over Document Content 2010 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 28 of 28 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
54 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00066047203
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00058443993
101 ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.0004955674
149 Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage 2005 CIDR 0.00041101118
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00036215179
434 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML 2003 VLDB 0.0002328559
527 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.00020868847
548 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00020391259
561 An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00020115419
611 Lineage Tracing for General Data Warehouse Transformations 2001 VLDB 0.00019231115
661 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00018481174
994 Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces 2007 SIGMOD 0.00014755845
1,147 Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go 2007 CIDR 0.00013677658
1,252 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.00013033186
1,271 Schema Summarization 2006 VLDB 0.00012923966
1,605 Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation 2007 SIGMOD 0.00011186762
1,870 Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data 2001 PODS 0.00010263799
1,936 QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data 2002 SIGMOD 0.00010030476
2,232 Effective Phrase Prediction 2007 VLDB 9.2293508e-05
2,313 NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML 2005 SIGMOD 9.0497076e-05
2,333 A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration 2005 CIDR 9.0169986e-05
2,415 VizQL: A Language for Query, Analysis and Visualization 2006 SIGMOD 8.8639497e-05
2,524 Provenance Management in Curated Databases 2006 SIGMOD 8.6017899e-05
2,704 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.2720556e-05
4,038 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5082212e-05
4,140 DaNaLIX: a Domain-adaptive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML 2007 SIGMOD 6.4149008e-05
4,869 Microsoft English Query 7.5 Automatic Extraction of Semantics from Relational Databases and OLAP Cubes 1999 VLDB 5.8618248e-05
6,614 Database Usability 1983 SIGMOD 4.993621e-05
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