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Finding Related Tables

Summary: Framework capturing diverse relatedness among heterogeneous tables, including joinable and unionable candidates. Algorithms detect joinable/unionable related tables; scalable to over a million Wikipedia tables, enabling reuse and improved search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4668
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.0001448231
Overall Rank
739 | 94.94%
DOI
10.1145/2213836.2213962

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sarma_sigmod12,
        title = {{Finding Related Tables}},
        author = {Sarma, Anish Das and Fang, Lujun and Gupta, Nitin and Halevy, Alon and Lee, Hongrae and Wu, Fei and Xin, Reynold and Yu, Cong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213962},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213962},
        year = {2012}
}

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397 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00019278189
749 Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities 2019 VLDB 0.00014379989
779 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014092047
878 Table Union Search on Open Data 2018 VLDB 0.00013463374
2,185 Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets 2016 SIGMOD 9.0026006e-05
2,192 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 8.9767241e-05
2,216 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 8.9374127e-05
2,315 SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search 2023 SIGMOD 8.7605101e-05
2,415 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.6069635e-05
3,015 Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation 2020 SIGMOD 7.848843e-05
3,181 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.6595256e-05
3,271 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7.5779937e-05
3,301 Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality 2017 VLDB 7.5408662e-05
3,350 Support the Data Enthusiast: Challenges for Next-Generation Data-Analysis Systems 2014 VLDB 7.4942163e-05
3,894 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 7.0417782e-05
4,123 Integrating Data Lake Tables 2023 VLDB 6.8878137e-05
4,707 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.552423e-05
5,396 Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 6.2329373e-05
5,479 MATE: Multi-Attribute Table Extraction 2022 VLDB 6.204351e-05
6,092 DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations 2015 CIDR 5.9794237e-05
6,210 Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First 2026 CIDR 5.9425753e-05
6,260 Interactive Navigation of Open Data Linkages 2017 VLDB 5.9371372e-05
7,893 LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes 2024 VLDB 5.5209866e-05
7,969 DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web 2015 VLDB 5.5165897e-05
8,233 Crossing the finish line faster when paddling the Data Lake with KAYAK 2017 VLDB 5.4610752e-05
8,705 Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment 2019 SIGMOD 5.3807913e-05
8,901 NLC: Search Correlated Window Pairs on Long Time Series 2022 VLDB 5.3492083e-05
9,019 SourceSight: Enabling Effective Source Selection 2016 SIGMOD 5.3309706e-05
10,287 Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,783 Table Overlap Estimation through Graph Embeddings 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,933 LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,062 Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,167 Determining the Largest Overlap between Tables 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,094 Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration 2015 CIDR 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
58 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00040116748
91 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00034838835
317 Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships 2010 VLDB 0.00021402049
356 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020303289
493 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00017558709
753 Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web 2011 VLDB 0.00014336094
813 Adaptive Ordering of Pipelined Stream Filters 2004 SIGMOD 0.00013846487
1,098 Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration 2010 SIGMOD 0.00012179025
1,316 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00011181216
1,684 Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web [Extended Abstract] 2009 VLDB 0.0001001843
2,578 Query Optimization over Web Services 2006 VLDB 8.3919147e-05
4,421 Flow Algorithms for Two Pipelined Filter Ordering Problems 2006 PODS 6.713113e-05
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