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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
3836
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2007
Pagerank
0.00030237174
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
491 Query by Output 2009 SIGMOD 0.00021960753
657 An Analytical Study of Large SPARQL Query Logs 2018 VLDB 0.00018581389
878 Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration 2010 SIGMOD 0.000156503
921 Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015261463
1,010 SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL 2011 VLDB 0.00014644808
1,124 How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013832959
1,346 NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012472598
1,502 Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011614522
1,506 Summarizing Relational Databases 2009 VLDB 0.0001159691
1,898 Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm 2011 VLDB 0.00010172275
2,077 Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors 2009 SIGMOD 9.6038296e-05
2,081 Sample-Driven Schema Mapping 2012 SIGMOD 9.58883e-05
2,716 WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications 2008 VLDB 8.2381491e-05
2,780 JSON Data Management – Supporting Schema-less Development in RDBMS 2014 SIGMOD 8.1307901e-05
2,990 FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering 2018 SIGMOD 7.7727915e-05
3,100 Answering Why-not Questions on Reverse Top-k Queries 2015 VLDB 7.5625111e-05
3,192 Gestural Query Specification 2014 VLDB 7.4085087e-05
3,208 VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation 2015 VLDB 7.3837748e-05
3,456 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.0756309e-05
3,941 NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data 2012 VLDB 6.6090509e-05
4,104 SocialScope: Enabling Information Discovery on Social Content Sites 2009 CIDR 6.4428325e-05
4,361 Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results 2016 SIGMOD 6.2482689e-05
4,635 Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs 2019 SIGMOD 6.0275975e-05
4,825 Querying Without Keyboards 2013 CIDR 5.889464e-05
5,209 Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples 2017 SIGMOD 5.6245587e-05
5,378 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 5.5379945e-05
5,459 QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster 2020 SIGMOD 5.4946579e-05
5,524 Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis 2020 SIGMOD 5.4589341e-05
5,569 PI2: End-to-end Interactive Visualization Interface Generation from Queries 2022 SIGMOD 5.4284007e-05
5,839 Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals 2023 VLDB 5.3073497e-05
5,896 GestureQuery: A Multitouch Database Query Interface 2013 VLDB 5.2814794e-05
5,988 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 5.2394981e-05
6,057 Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases 2016 VLDB 5.2275892e-05
6,448 Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines 2018 SIGMOD 5.0532741e-05
6,711 Schema-free SQL 2014 SIGMOD 4.9485222e-05
7,007 Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL 2016 SIGMOD 4.8606428e-05
7,616 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 4.6901111e-05
8,062 Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection 2014 VLDB 4.5902135e-05
8,115 Databases will Visualize Queries too* 2011 VLDB 4.5800219e-05
8,175 NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews 2021 VLDB 4.5638044e-05
8,723 GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases 2010 SIGMOD 4.4546285e-05
8,774 CRIUS: User-Friendly Database Design 2011 VLDB 4.4502549e-05
9,695 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 4.298211e-05
11,696 Enabling Data Science for the Majority 2019 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,028 The Case for Personal Data-Driven Decision Making 2014 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,195 DBWiki: A Structured Wiki for Curated Data and Collaborative Data Management 2011 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,241 Pay-As-You-Go - An Adaptive Approach to Provide Full Context-Aware Text Search over Document Content 2010 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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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
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.0005840064
103 ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.00049520051
149 Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage 2005 CIDR 0.00041085859
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.0003618341
436 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML 2003 VLDB 0.00023264416
528 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.0002085799
547 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00020372992
561 An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00020099434
593 Lineage Tracing for General Data Warehouse Transformations 2001 VLDB 0.0001952223
662 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00018478597
994 Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces 2007 SIGMOD 0.00014745808
1,146 Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go 2007 CIDR 0.0001367088
1,251 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.0001302453
1,270 Schema Summarization 2006 VLDB 0.00012911456
1,606 Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation 2007 SIGMOD 0.00011175693
1,873 Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data 2001 PODS 0.00010255165
1,941 QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data 2002 SIGMOD 0.00010018268
2,235 Effective Phrase Prediction 2007 VLDB 9.2208486e-05
2,320 NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML 2005 SIGMOD 9.0414295e-05
2,335 A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration 2005 CIDR 9.0110693e-05
2,413 VizQL: A Language for Query, Analysis and Visualization 2006 SIGMOD 8.8591003e-05
2,529 Provenance Management in Curated Databases 2006 SIGMOD 8.5944731e-05
2,707 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.265158e-05
4,046 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5021302e-05
4,144 DaNaLIX: a Domain-adaptive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML 2007 SIGMOD 6.4087307e-05
4,872 Microsoft English Query 7.5 Automatic Extraction of Semantics from Relational Databases and OLAP Cubes 1999 VLDB 5.856778e-05
6,613 Database Usability 1983 SIGMOD 4.9898727e-05
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