Schemas and Types for JSON Data: from Theory to Practice

Summary: Survey of JSON schema languages (JSON Schema, JSound, Joi) and type abstractions, bridging theory and practice for JSON data. Analyzes schema inference and parsing-enhancement tools, and outlines open research challenges for researchers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5706
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.9270536e-05
Overall Rank: 6,283 | 56.90%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3314032

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mohamed-Amine Baazizi (Sorbonne University)
2. Dario Colazzo (Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University; University of Paris)
3. Giorgio Ghelli (University of Pisa)
4. Carlo Sartiani (University of Basilicata)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{baazizi_sigmod19,
        title = {{Schemas and Types for JSON Data: from Theory to Practice}},
        author = {Baazizi, Mohamed-Amine and Colazzo, Dario and Ghelli, Giorgio and Sartiani, Carlo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3314032},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3314032},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,436	GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example	2023	SIGMOD	5.2692207e-05
9,893	ReCG: Bottom-Up JSON Schema Discovery Using a Repetitive Cluster-and-Generalize Framework	2024	VLDB	5.1997534e-05
10,091	Witness Generation for JSON Schema	2022	VLDB	5.1535135e-05
11,771	JSON Schema Matching: Empirical Observations	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
514	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00017178673
1,021	Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis	2011	VLDB	0.00012606673
2,391	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.6413407e-05
3,287	JSON: Data model, Query languages and Schema specification	2017	PODS	7.5587639e-05
5,048	FAD.js: Fast JSON Data Access Using JIT-based Speculative Optimizations	2017	VLDB	6.3870952e-05

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