One Table Stores All: Enabling Painless Free-and-Easy Data Publishing and Sharing

Summary: Introduces a folksonomy-driven, schema-free "one table" model that stores heterogeneous user-created data units with arbitrary metadata vocabularies, eliminating upfront schema design. Describes a management framework plus browsing, search, and query services over these flexible units and outlines research issues. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 70
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.6579198e-05
Overall Rank: 7,278 | 50.07%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Bei Yu (National University of Singapore)
2. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
3. Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore)
4. Li-Zhu Zhou (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yu_cidr07,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '07},
        title = {{One Table Stores All: Enabling Painless Free-and-Easy Data Publishing and Sharing}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Yu, Bei and Li, Guoliang and Ooi, Beng Chin and Zhou, Li-Zhu},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,724	A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data	2007	VLDB	8.2048095e-05
2,877	DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)	2007	SIGMOD	8.0070039e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,038	Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data	2001	VLDB	0.00012476189

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