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Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS

Summary: SQL-based keyword search over RDBMSs discovers interconnected tuple structures (connected trees, radius-bounded reachability, multi-center subgraphs) with size control. Tuple reduction prunes irrelevant tuples via SQL, then evaluates the reduced data with SQL; no new indexing, validated on two commercial RDBMSs and two real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4156
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00011350495
Overall Rank
1,564 | 89.13%
DOI
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2,717 REGAL+: Reverse Engineering SPJA Queries 2018 VLDB 8.2425675e-05
2,982 FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering 2018 SIGMOD 7.7801984e-05
3,758 Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach 2011 SIGMOD 6.7824746e-05
4,838 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 5.8887949e-05
5,323 Optimizing and Parallelizing Ranked Enumeration 2011 VLDB 5.5693009e-05
5,650 Trip Planning by an Integrated Search Paradigm 2018 SIGMOD 5.3911246e-05
8,029 Understanding Queries in a Search Database System 2010 PODS 4.6028544e-05
8,766 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 4.456315e-05
9,441 Finding a Minimal Tree Pattern Under Neighborhood Constraints 2011 PODS 4.3415167e-05
12,239 Exploratory Keyword Search on Data Graphs 2010 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,266 Ten Thousand SQLs: Parallel Keyword Queries Computing 2010 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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51 Including Group-By in Query Optimization 1994 VLDB 0.00067123727
54 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00066047203
179 Efficient and Extensible Algorithms for Multi Query Optimization 2000 SIGMOD 0.00037672155
276 Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases 2003 VLDB 0.00029336949
301 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028370644
320 ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00027577867
336 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027020919
454 An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems 1998 PODS 0.00022734812
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
1,201 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.0001334371
1,453 Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 0.00011917976
1,476 Efficient Exploitation of Similar Subexpressions for Query Processing 2007 SIGMOD 0.00011779092
2,183 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 9.3439219e-05
2,599 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4702307e-05
4,592 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0613645e-05
4,675 Scalable Multi-Query Optimization for Exploratory Queries over Federated Scientific Databases 2008 VLDB 6.0056894e-05
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