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Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples

Summary: Given a few example tuples, the paper tackles discovering the minimal project-join query that contains them. Novel algorithms deliver substantial efficiency gains over naive approaches, advancing query-by-example discovery in data management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4795
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00011614522
Overall Rank
1,502 | 89.57%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2593664

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1,421 Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries 2020 SIGMOD 0.00012052759
1,507 Overview of Data Exploration Techniques 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011594294
2,577 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.5066436e-05
2,717 REGAL+: Reverse Engineering SPJA Queries 2018 VLDB 8.2370772e-05
2,990 FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering 2018 SIGMOD 7.7727915e-05
3,662 Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity 2019 VLDB 6.8647421e-05
3,668 Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries 2017 VLDB 6.8581987e-05
3,878 Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis 2017 SIGMOD 6.6669911e-05
4,755 Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration 2019 VLDB 5.9375171e-05
5,524 Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis 2020 SIGMOD 5.4589341e-05
6,235 New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 5.1386078e-05
6,468 Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets 2019 VLDB 5.0448709e-05
7,276 DICE: Data Discovery by Example 2021 VLDB 4.773228e-05
8,338 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 4.538469e-05
9,019 Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data 2024 VLDB 4.4052498e-05
9,219 SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery 2018 SIGMOD 4.3672182e-05
9,283 Interactive and Deterministic Data Cleaning: A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples 2016 SIGMOD 4.3598353e-05
10,197 Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,247 Cornet: Learning Table Formatting Rules By Example 2023 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,474 On Optimizing the Trade-off between Privacy and Utility in Data Provenance 2021 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,596 SPARQL Rewriting: Towards Desired Results 2020 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,640 Demonstration of a Multiresolution Schema Mapping System 2019 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
11,653 Generating Selective Filters for Access Method and Physical Design Evaluation 2019 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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