Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases
Summary: Structure-aware keyword-relationship summarization of relational databases enables cross-source keyword search. Ranking methods based on these summaries select the most relevant databases for a keyword query; PlanetLab experiments on real data validate effectiveness. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Bei Yu
- 2. Guoliang Li
- 3. Karen Sollins
- 4. Anthony K. H. Tung
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,153 | SQAK: Doing More with Keywords | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00013633055 |
| 2,127 | EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data | 2008 | SIGMOD | 9.4806381e-05 |
| 3,456 | Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.0756309e-05 |
| 7,859 | ConnectionLens: Finding Connections Across Heterogeneous Data Sources | 2018 | VLDB | 4.6298049e-05 |
| 9,187 | Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search | 2012 | VLDB | 4.375789e-05 |
| 9,589 | A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.3167828e-05 |
| 12,178 | Schema-As-You-Go: On Probabilistic Tagging and Querying of Wide Tables | 2011 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 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 |
| 127 | Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00044607231 |
| 278 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029322862 |
| 320 | ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00027574254 |
| 759 | To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00017041917 |
| 873 | Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.0001570125 |
| 1,072 | Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search | 2006 | PODS | 0.00014256848 |
| 1,486 | Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00011691409 |
| 2,241 | BATON: A Balanced Tree Structure for Peer-to-Peer Networks | 2005 | VLDB | 9.2133573e-05 |
| 8,688 | Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents | 2001 | SIGMOD | 4.4620588e-05 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,763 | Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data | 2010 | VLDB | 4.4520434e-05 |
| 1,202 | SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.0001333126 |
| 1,564 | Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00011340407 |
| 9,187 | Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search | 2012 | VLDB | 4.375789e-05 |
| 1,506 | Summarizing Relational Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 0.0001159691 |
| 3,766 | Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach | 2011 | SIGMOD | 6.7753484e-05 |
| 9,065 | Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 4.3992275e-05 |
| 9,589 | A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.3167828e-05 |
| 278 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029322862 |
| 873 | Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.0001570125 |