Interactive Data Exploration Using Semantic Windows

Summary: Semantic Windows (SW) enable interactive exploration of multidimensional windows via shape- and content-based constraints atop DBMSs. Sampling-guided search with online results and adaptive prefetching enables distributed PostgreSQL execution for big data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4858
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.7134729e-05
Overall Rank: 3,144 | 78.44%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2593666

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Authors

1. Alexander Kalinin (Brown University)
2. Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
3. Stan Zdonik (Brown University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kalinin_sigmod14,
        title = {{Interactive Data Exploration Using Semantic Windows}},
        author = {Kalinin, Alexander and Cetintemel, Ugur and Zdonik, Stan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2593666},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2593666},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
1,799	DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models	2019	SIGMOD	9.7326398e-05
3,214	Searchlight: Enabling Integrated Search and Exploration over Large Multidimensional Data	2015	VLDB	7.6325181e-05
4,420	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	6.7132724e-05
6,180	Visualization-aware Time Series Min-Max Caching with Error Bound Guarantees	2024	VLDB	5.949572e-05
6,737	Towards Democratizing Relational Data Visualization	2019	SIGMOD	5.7875328e-05
6,853	Scalable Package Queries in Relational Database Systems	2016	VLDB	5.7540003e-05
7,600	Towards Best Region Search for Data Exploration	2016	SIGMOD	5.5867987e-05
7,964	Scaling Package Queries to a Billion Tuples via Hierarchical Partitioning and Customized Optimization	2024	VLDB	5.5177726e-05
8,823	Querying Geo-Textual Data: Spatial Keyword Queries and Beyond	2016	SIGMOD	5.3624668e-05
9,223	Interactive Search and Exploration of Waveform Data with Searchlight	2016	SIGMOD	5.3038189e-05
11,232	SeLeP: Learning Based Semantic Prefetching for Exploratory Database Workloads	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00077458002
131	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00030424509
553	Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016590619
1,535	Exploratory Mining and Pruning Optimizations of Constrained Association Rules	1998	SIGMOD	0.00010463058
1,582	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010295367
4,950	ProgXe: Progressive Result Generation Framework for Multi-Criteria Decision Support Queries	2010	SIGMOD	6.4312348e-05

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