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Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources

Summary: Wrapper architecture for legacy data in Garlic enables integrated access. Wrappers model legacy data as objects, participate in query planning, and expose standard interfaces; 10 sources supported, rapid wrapper development, flexible across models. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8427
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
0.00026656272
Overall Rank
346 | 97.60%
DOI
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151 Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00041016476
168 MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data 2009 VLDB 0.00038946305
1,025 WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web* 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014603741
1,132 Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F 1999 VLDB 0.00013777657
1,343 NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012482538
1,630 Garlic: A New Flavor of Federated Query Processing for DB2 2002 SIGMOD 0.0001108111
1,833 Data Wrangling: The Challenging Journey from the Wild to the Lake 2015 CIDR 0.00010378976
2,100 Query Optimization over Web Services 2006 VLDB 9.5443207e-05
2,284 Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries using Transient-Views 1998 SIGMOD 9.1053836e-05
2,323 Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources 1999 SIGMOD 9.0334169e-05
3,832 Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources 1997 VLDB 6.7178862e-05
3,981 Integrating Information for On Demand Computing 2003 VLDB 6.5659801e-05
4,202 Cost Models DO Matter: Providing Cost Information for Diverse Data Sources in a Federated System 1999 VLDB 6.36184e-05
4,326 Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization 2016 VLDB 6.288323e-05
4,357 Loading a Cache with Query Results 1999 VLDB 6.2574559e-05
4,480 Information Integration: the MOMIS Project Demonstration 2000 VLDB 6.1488314e-05
4,647 Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS 1998 SIGMOD 6.0249946e-05
4,667 FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS 2021 VLDB 6.0116919e-05
5,329 Heterogeneous Database Query Optimization in DB2 Universal DataJoiner 1998 VLDB 5.5665399e-05
6,352 Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources 2006 SIGMOD 5.0998595e-05
6,407 Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa 2015 CIDR 5.076547e-05
6,682 Adaptable Query Optimization and Evaluation in Temporal Middleware 2001 SIGMOD 4.9639791e-05
8,612 Parallel Querying with Non-Dedicated Computers 2005 VLDB 4.485064e-05
9,180 MOCHA: A Self-Extensible Database Middleware System for Distributed Data Sources 2000 SIGMOD 4.3819656e-05
9,608 Unified Data Analytics: State-of-the-art and Open Problems 2022 VLDB 4.3177432e-05
10,591 Accio: Bolt-on Query Federation 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,752 Lusail: A System for Querying Linked Data at Scale 2018 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,483 SQLB: A Query Allocation Framework for Autonomous Consumers and Providers 2007 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,675 HyperQueries: Dynamic Distributed Query Processing on the Internet 2001 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,695 Approximate Query Translation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources 2000 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,713 Database Patchwork on the Internet 1999 SIGMOD 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
127 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00044642203
151 Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00041016476
196 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00035261496
219 Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives 1988 SIGMOD 0.00033244259
1,278 Some Experimental Results on Distributed Join Algorithms in a Local Network 1985 VLDB 0.00012868969
1,351 Data Access for the Masses through OLE DB 1996 SIGMOD 0.00012419309
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