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: 4916
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 9.8144532e-05
Overall Rank: 2,006 | 86.06%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2612183

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2,825	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.0575959e-05
4,319	Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization	2016	VLDB	6.2823814e-05
4,491	Automatic Generation of Normalized Relational Schemas from Nested Key-Value Data	2016	SIGMOD	6.137527e-05
4,702	JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data	2021	SIGMOD	5.9796907e-05
6,675	Exploiting Common Patterns for Tree-Structured Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.9615691e-05
7,007	Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL	2016	SIGMOD	4.8606428e-05
7,348	STEED: An Analytical Database System for TrEE-structured Data	2017	VLDB	4.7501876e-05
8,716	Native JSON Datatype Support: Maturing SQL and NoSQL convergence in Oracle Database	2020	VLDB	4.4569825e-05
8,727	Columnar Formats for Schemaless LSM-based Document Stores	2022	VLDB	4.4534547e-05
9,139	Management of Flexible Schema Data in RDBMSs - Opportunities and Limitations for NoSQL	2015	CIDR	4.382747e-05
9,749	ReCG: Bottom-Up JSON Schema Discovery Using a Repetitive Cluster-and-Generalize Framework	2024	VLDB	4.2856385e-05
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11,695	Integration of Large-Scale Data Processing Systems and Traditional Parallel Database Technology	2019	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048217028
153	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00040759404
206	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00034583517
860	Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data	2001	VLDB	0.00015804018
909	Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.0001540191
1,265	Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis	2011	VLDB	0.00012933537
1,346	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012472598
4,427	The Case for a Wide-Table Approach to Manage Sparse Relational Data Sets	2007	SIGMOD	6.1886396e-05
5,350	Pathfinder: XQuery—The Relational Way	2005	VLDB	5.5541436e-05
6,335	Column Stores For Wide and Sparse Data	2007	CIDR	5.1010058e-05

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