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Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *

Summary: Calls for a unified DB–IR platform marrying structured DB queries with IR-style flexible, app-controlled scoring/ranking. Analyzes requirements (manageable core, easy API), highlights the tension between scoring flexibility and optimizability, and issues research challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
40
Venue
CIDR
Year
2005
Pagerank
8.4702307e-05
Overall Rank
2,599 | 81.93%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,201 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.0001334371
1,252 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.00013033186
1,564 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011350495
2,012 DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) 2007 SIGMOD 9.7951657e-05
2,125 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.4893973e-05
2,531 The CompleteSearch Engine: Interactive, Efficient, and Towards IR & DB Integration 2007 CIDR 8.5911728e-05
2,933 Answering Top-k Queries Using Views 2006 VLDB 7.8679669e-05
3,807 Supporting Ad-hoc Ranking Aggregates 2006 SIGMOD 6.747576e-05
4,711 Answering Top-k Queries with Multi-Dimensional Selections: The Ranking Cube Approach 2006 VLDB 5.9790683e-05
6,050 Ranking Objects by Exploiting Relationships: Computing Top-K over Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 5.2360729e-05
6,073 Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance 2007 CIDR 5.2253416e-05
6,653 Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By 2007 SIGMOD 4.9735307e-05
6,654 Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring 2007 CIDR 4.9733876e-05
6,702 Efficient and Flexible Information Retrieval Using MonetDB/X100 2007 CIDR 4.9559916e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 37 of 37 cited papers.

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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
7 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015496097
17 Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00096067547
54 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00066047203
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00058443993
150 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00041055843
195 Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories 1996 SIGMOD 0.00035406558
320 ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00027577867
405 Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets 2000 VLDB 0.00024057494
427 Automated Ranking of Database Query Results 2003 CIDR 0.0002352637
434 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML 2003 VLDB 0.0002328559
465 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022455702
470 On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL 1997 SIGMOD 0.00022393068
527 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.00020868847
552 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00020310903
666 The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System 1996 VLDB 0.00018449748
674 Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00018327585
707 Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems 2002 VLDB 0.00017782998
709 Efficient Similarity Search and Classification via Rank Aggregation 2003 SIGMOD 0.00017768547
967 Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00014959939
1,096 Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014120512
1,789 Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine 1998 VLDB 0.00010555087
1,808 Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees 2004 VLDB 0.00010486213
1,879 A Call to Order 1993 PODS 0.00010232242
1,972 BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 9.8916725e-05
1,992 Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results 2004 VLDB 9.8462684e-05
2,153 Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques 1995 SIGMOD 9.4231298e-05
2,161 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.4002771e-05
2,314 Optimization of Sequence Queries in Database Systems 2001 PODS 9.0479606e-05
2,393 Rank-aware Query Optimization 2004 SIGMOD 8.9016542e-05
2,556 Probabilistic Optimization of Top N Queries 1999 VLDB 8.5465733e-05
2,671 The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types 1997 VLDB 8.3367703e-05
2,808 A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries 2001 SIGMOD 8.0870741e-05
3,091 Optimized Query Execution in Large Search Engines with Global Page Ordering 2003 VLDB 7.5805947e-05
3,667 Querying Structured Text in an XML Database 2003 SIGMOD 6.8602249e-05
7,136 Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems 2003 VLDB 4.8220711e-05
7,609 A System for Keyword Proximity Search on XML Databases 2003 VLDB 4.6966255e-05
9,304 Phrase Matching in XML 2003 VLDB 4.3578291e-05
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