Sample-Driven Schema Mapping

Summary: MWEAVER: real-time, sample-driven schema mapping from target samples via a spreadsheet interface; no explicit attribute matches. Algorithms infer mappings while masking schema semantics, yielding results about 5x faster than prior tools in user studies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4575
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 9.838446e-05
Overall Rank: 1,751 | 87.99%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213846

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Authors

1. Li Qian (University of Michigan)
2. Michael J. Cafarella (University of Michigan)
3. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{qian_sigmod12,
        title = {{Sample-Driven Schema Mapping}},
        author = {Qian, Li and Cafarella, Michael J. and Jagadish, H. V.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213846},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213846},
        year = {2012}
}

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749	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00014379989
1,101	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00012168934
1,192	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011740132
1,262	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011427456
1,313	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011186284
2,048	Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries	2020	SIGMOD	9.2560185e-05
2,387	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.6482009e-05
2,631	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	8.3231158e-05
3,300	Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries	2017	VLDB	7.5412976e-05
3,677	Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity	2019	VLDB	7.2076465e-05
4,140	Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples	2017	SIGMOD	6.8765495e-05
5,300	Towards Distribution-aware Query Answering in Data Markets	2022	VLDB	6.2751506e-05
6,533	Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis	2020	VLDB	5.8488042e-05
8,217	Automated Migration of Hierarchical Data to Relational Tables using Programming-by-Example	2018	VLDB	5.4644927e-05
8,987	Constructing Expressive Relational Queries with Dual-Specification Synthesis	2020	CIDR	5.3387464e-05
9,119	Knowledge Translation	2020	VLDB	5.3196675e-05
9,253	Cost-efficient Data Acquisition on Online Data Marketplaces for Correlation Analysis	2019	VLDB	5.297659e-05
9,436	GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example	2023	SIGMOD	5.2692207e-05
9,442	Interactive and Deterministic Data Cleaning: A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples	2016	SIGMOD	5.2677992e-05
9,726	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	5.2302483e-05
11,830	Demonstration of a Multiresolution Schema Mapping System	2019	CIDR	5.093636e-05
11,917	GeoFlux: Hands-Off Data Integration Leveraging Join Key Knowledge	2018	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
22	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00056204792
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
263	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0002305693
297	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00022157284
302	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00021963347
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
390	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019382486
416	Translating Web Data	2002	VLDB	0.00018877803
493	Data Integration for the Relational Web	2009	VLDB	0.00017558709
506	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.0001728171
808	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013884332
1,030	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD	0.00012545209
2,215	Characterizing Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2010	PODS	8.93781e-05
3,032	Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries	2008	VLDB	7.8323614e-05
3,341	Designing and Refining Schema Mappings via Data Examples	2011	SIGMOD	7.5028917e-05
4,074	SPIDER: a Schema mapPIng DEbuggeR	2006	VLDB	6.9232658e-05
5,492	HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching	2009	VLDB	6.2001088e-05
6,931	Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration	2010	SIGMOD	5.736358e-05

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