The Case for a Wide-Table Approach to Manage Sparse Relational Data Sets
Summary: Argues sparsity across hundreds of attributes is best handled with a single wide table, not sparse schemas. Proposes facilities for multi-attribute queries and fast processing on wide sparse tables, enabling self-managing DBs by reducing schema overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Eric Chu
- 2. Jennifer Beckmann
- 3. Jeffrey Naughton
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,212 | RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00013255692 |
| 2,006 | Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data | 2014 | SIGMOD | 9.8144532e-05 |
| 2,760 | A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data | 2007 | VLDB | 8.1640002e-05 |
| 7,786 | Relational Support for Flexible Schema Scenarios | 2008 | VLDB | 4.6469243e-05 |
| 8,151 | A Comparison of Flexible Schemas for Software as a Service | 2009 | SIGMOD | 4.5711226e-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)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00086163998 |
| 53 | DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00065993143 |
| 237 | An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00031727601 |
| 547 | Schema-Free XQuery | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00020372992 |
| 860 | Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00015804018 |
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