Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data

Summary: Sinew is a SQL system for multi-structured data, preserving SQL access while embracing JSON-based formats. It stores arbitrary key-value documents in columns and exposes a dynamic relational view for standard SQL, delivering strong gains over JSON/MongoDB. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4915
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 9.8186417e-05
Overall Rank: 2,001 | 86.09%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2612183

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2,819	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.0651326e-05
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4,489	Automatic Generation of Normalized Relational Schemas from Nested Key-Value Data	2016	SIGMOD	6.1434237e-05
4,704	JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data	2021	SIGMOD	5.9853687e-05
6,674	Exploiting Common Patterns for Tree-Structured Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.9663344e-05
7,007	Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL	2016	SIGMOD	4.8653116e-05
7,350	STEED: An Analytical Database System for TrEE-structured Data	2017	VLDB	4.754748e-05
8,719	Native JSON Datatype Support: Maturing SQL and NoSQL convergence in Oracle Database	2020	VLDB	4.4612589e-05
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9,138	Management of Flexible Schema Data in RDBMSs - Opportunities and Limitations for NoSQL	2015	CIDR	4.3869509e-05
9,750	ReCG: Bottom-Up JSON Schema Discovery Using a Repetitive Cluster-and-Generalize Framework	2024	VLDB	4.2897489e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048186983
153	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00040784455
207	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00034611968
864	Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data	2001	VLDB	0.00015813082
913	Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.00015408131
1,265	Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis	2011	VLDB	0.00012947629
1,343	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012482538
4,433	The Case for a Wide-Table Approach to Manage Sparse Relational Data Sets	2007	SIGMOD	6.1935064e-05
5,386	Pathfinder: XQuery—The Relational Way	2005	VLDB	5.5379061e-05
6,336	Column Stores For Wide and Sparse Data	2007	CIDR	5.1056582e-05

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