Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples

Summary: Demo of Scythe, an interactive query-by-example system that synthesizes expressive SQL from input–output examples in a web browser. Ambiguities resolved via user conversation; scales to outer joins and subqueries, enabling end-user SQL programming and data exploration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5372
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.7873101e-05
Overall Rank: 4,980 | 65.36%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3058738

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Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

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6,237	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1435341e-05
6,679	SQUARES : A SQL Synthesizer Using Query Reverse Engineering	2020	VLDB	4.9656458e-05
9,216	SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery	2018	SIGMOD	4.3714077e-05
9,929	Wred: Workload Reduction for Scalable Index Tuning	2024	SIGMOD	4.2510122e-05
9,992	Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,035	Relational Query Synthesis ⋈ Decision Tree Learning	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,300	Towards Auto-Generated Data Systems	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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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
492	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00021974699
567	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00019966681
1,057	Cosette: An Automated Prover for SQL	2017	CIDR	0.0001439886
1,459	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011889802
6,818	NLyze: Interactive Programming by Natural Language for SpreadSheet Data Analysis and Manipulation	2014	SIGMOD	4.916347e-05

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