Integrating a Structured-Text Retrieval System with an Object-Oriented Database System

Summary: Integrates TextMachine (structured-text retrieval) into OpenODB by wrapping the retriever as an external information source via external functions. Query translation enables uniform SQL-like access to textual and structured data, delivering fused information and greater querying power. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8242
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 7.7716427e-05
Overall Rank: 2,990 | 79.21%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Tak W. Yan
2. Jurgen Annevelink

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
193	On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00035610321
2,153	Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques	1995	SIGMOD	9.4231298e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
421	Query Optimization in the Presence of Foreign Functions	1993	VLDB	0.00023711553
3,079	Extended User-Defined Indexing with Application to Textual Databases	1988	VLDB	7.6037529e-05
5,230	Efficiency of Nested Relational Document Database Systems	1991	VLDB	5.6146582e-05

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