Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL

Summary: Enhances Oracle JSON in 12cR2 with Flexible Schema Data Management, via auto-computed JSON DataGuide soft schema. Introduces OSON, a query-friendly binary JSON encoding narrowing the relational vs. schema-less gap, enabling mixed SQL/NoSQL in RDBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5190
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.8653116e-05
Overall Rank: 7,007 | 51.26%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2595628

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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7,194	JSON Relational Duality: A Revolutionary Combination of Document, Object, and Relational Models	2025	SIGMOD	4.8037242e-05
7,350	STEED: An Analytical Database System for TrEE-structured Data	2017	VLDB	4.754748e-05
7,571	Reducing Ambiguity in Json Schema Discovery	2021	SIGMOD	4.7075853e-05
8,719	Native JSON Datatype Support: Maturing SQL and NoSQL convergence in Oracle Database	2020	VLDB	4.4612589e-05
9,851	Adaptive Schema Databases	2017	CIDR	4.2721228e-05
11,150	Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data	2023	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
61	DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases	1997	VLDB	0.00064329285
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048186983
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030223397
2,001	Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data	2014	SIGMOD	9.8186417e-05
2,069	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.6329563e-05
2,412	WideTable: An Accelerator for Analytical Data Processing	2014	VLDB	8.8726508e-05
2,773	JSON Data Management – Supporting Schema-less Development in RDBMS	2014	SIGMOD	8.1386587e-05
3,349	Schema Management for Document Stores	2015	VLDB	7.1903648e-05
6,591	Towards An Enterprise XML Architecture	2005	SIGMOD	5.0008467e-05
9,138	Management of Flexible Schema Data in RDBMSs - Opportunities and Limitations for NoSQL	2015	CIDR	4.3869509e-05

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