ColumbuScout: Towards Building Local Search Engines over Large Databases
Summary: ColumbuScout demonstrates a local search engine over large databases, replacing form-based SQL translations with search-engine-like queries and ranking. It introduces novel indexing and storage designs to boost efficiency and scalability, and is easy for developers to deploy over existing databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Cody Hansen
- 2. Feifei Li
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| 278 | Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00029322862 |
| 1,680 | DBXplorer: Enabling Keyword Search over Relational Databases | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00010923824 |
| 3,456 | Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.0756309e-05 |
| 5,892 | Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial) | 2009 | VLDB | 5.2829767e-05 |
| 7,962 | Seaform: Search-As-You-Type in Forms | 2010 | VLDB | 4.6089395e-05 |
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