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SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases

Summary: Introduces SPARK for top-k keyword queries over relational data using a virtual-document ranking that adapts IR techniques. Proposes efficient processing with minimal DB accesses; shows strong effectiveness and efficiency on large real datasets across two RDBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3844
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2007
Pagerank
0.0001334371
Overall Rank
1,201 | 91.65%
DOI
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8,750 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 4.456315e-05
8,766 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 4.456315e-05
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9,589 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 4.3209273e-05
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7 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015496097
54 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00066047203
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00036215179
217 Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033536712
276 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00029336949
336 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027020919
552 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00020310903
674 Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00018327585
877 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00015714014
1,073 Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search 2006 PODS 0.00014264992
1,096 Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014120512
2,009 IO-Top-k: Index-access Optimized Top-k Query Processing 2006 VLDB 9.7977564e-05
2,599 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4702307e-05
2,933 Answering Top-k Queries Using Views 2006 VLDB 7.8679669e-05
3,463 Towards Robust Indexing for Ranked Queries 2006 VLDB 7.069675e-05
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