Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine
Summary: Demonstrates that a spreadsheet can serve as a relational database engine using only formulas to implement relational algebra (no macros). Given SQL definitions, a workbook yields data tables and query worksheets that auto-update; Excel prototype shows desktop-scale performance for a few thousand rows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Jerzy Tyszkiewicz (University of Warsaw)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{tyszkiewicz_sigmod10,
title = {{Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine}},
author = {Tyszkiewicz, Jerzy},
series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807191},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807191},
year = {2010}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,046 | Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.9392871e-05 |
| 5,976 | Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases | 2016 | VLDB | 6.0219844e-05 |
| 6,395 | DataSpread: Unifying Databases and Spreadsheets | 2015 | VLDB | 5.8876003e-05 |
| 7,618 | Senbazuru: A Prototype Spreadsheet Database Management System | 2013 | VLDB | 5.5811128e-05 |
| 8,510 | Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses | 2022 | VLDB | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 8,511 | NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews | 2021 | VLDB | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 11,886 | Enabling Data Science for the Majority | 2019 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,687 | Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00010005718 |
| 4,477 | Query By Excel | 2005 | VLDB | 6.6793744e-05 |
| 7,007 | PrediCalc: A Logical Spreadsheet Management System | 2005 | VLDB | 5.7267832e-05 |
| 7,008 | Business Modeling Using SQL Spreadsheets | 2003 | VLDB | 5.7267832e-05 |
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