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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
8.4628537e-05
Overall Rank
2,604 | 81.91%
DOI
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1,202 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.0001333126
1,251 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.0001302453
1,564 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011340407
2,017 DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) 2007 SIGMOD 9.7875061e-05
2,127 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.4806381e-05
2,530 The CompleteSearch Engine: Interactive, Efficient, and Towards IR & DB Integration 2007 CIDR 8.5942205e-05
2,936 Answering Top-k Queries Using Views 2006 VLDB 7.8579393e-05
3,809 Supporting Ad-hoc Ranking Aggregates 2006 SIGMOD 6.7413981e-05
4,718 Answering Top-k Queries with Multi-Dimensional Selections: The Ranking Cube Approach 2006 VLDB 5.9664602e-05
6,054 Ranking Objects by Exploiting Relationships: Computing Top-K over Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 5.2310615e-05
6,078 Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance 2007 CIDR 5.2203245e-05
6,656 Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By 2007 SIGMOD 4.9691233e-05
6,657 Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring 2007 CIDR 4.9686214e-05
6,704 Efficient and Flexible Information Retrieval Using MonetDB/X100 2007 CIDR 4.9512882e-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
8 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015436578
17 Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00095799341
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.0005840064
150 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00041081536
195 Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories 1996 SIGMOD 0.00035317524
320 ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00027574254
416 Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets 2000 VLDB 0.00023773968
427 Automated Ranking of Database Query Results 2003 CIDR 0.0002350378
436 XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML 2003 VLDB 0.00023264416
464 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022476798
469 On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL 1997 SIGMOD 0.00022397468
528 Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System 2000 VLDB 0.0002085799
551 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00020310856
666 The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System 1996 VLDB 0.00018431431
673 Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00018325667
706 Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems 2002 VLDB 0.00017777858
710 Efficient Similarity Search and Classification via Rank Aggregation 2003 SIGMOD 0.00017727016
960 Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00015031055
1,093 Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014123221
1,780 Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine 1998 VLDB 0.00010558417
1,805 Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees 2004 VLDB 0.00010479371
1,880 A Call to Order 1993 PODS 0.00010225504
1,974 BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 9.8822798e-05
1,996 Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results 2004 VLDB 9.8374939e-05
2,150 Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques 1995 SIGMOD 9.4245849e-05
2,166 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.3918483e-05
2,249 Rank-aware Query Optimization 2004 SIGMOD 9.1956569e-05
2,319 Optimization of Sequence Queries in Database Systems 2001 PODS 9.0421991e-05
2,552 Probabilistic Optimization of Top N Queries 1999 VLDB 8.5540341e-05
2,675 The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types 1997 VLDB 8.3295149e-05
2,813 A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries 2001 SIGMOD 8.0816314e-05
3,097 Optimized Query Execution in Large Search Engines with Global Page Ordering 2003 VLDB 7.5745942e-05
3,671 Querying Structured Text in an XML Database 2003 SIGMOD 6.853634e-05
7,134 Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems 2003 VLDB 4.8174665e-05
7,610 A System for Keyword Proximity Search on XML Databases 2003 VLDB 4.6921191e-05
9,310 Phrase Matching in XML 2003 VLDB 4.3536718e-05
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