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SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems

Summary: SchemaSQL extends SQL to uniformly query and transform relational data and metadata across multidatabase systems. Its distinctive features include instance-dependent schemas, data/metadata interchange, and horizontal or block aggregation, enabling powerful interoperability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
8538
Venue
VLDB
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.00010366362
Overall Rank
1,558 | 89.32%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{lakshmanan_vldb96,
        title = {{SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems}},
        author = {Lakshmanan, Laks V. S. and Sadri, Fereidoon and Subramanian, Iyer N.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {239--250},
        year = {1996}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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94 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00034616103
585 Lineage Tracing for General Data Warehouse Transformations 2001 VLDB 0.00016139897
1,243 Querying XML Views of Relational Data 2001 VLDB 0.00011513177
1,431 Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems 2020 VLDB 0.00010807221
1,708 Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures 1998 SIGMOD 9.958846e-05
1,866 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.5914583e-05
6,252 Putting Context into Schema Matching 2006 VLDB 5.941182e-05
6,611 Information Preserving XML Schema Embedding 2005 VLDB 5.8228205e-05
7,561 Data Exchange with Data-Metadata Translations 2008 VLDB 5.5982686e-05
11,356 Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data 2023 CIDR 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
63 An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00038782376
76 Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling 1990 SIGMOD 0.00037054261
403 Querying Object-Oriented Databases 1992 SIGMOD 0.0001907249
992 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00012790174
1,672 Language Features for Interoperability of Databases with Schematic Discrepancies 1991 SIGMOD 0.0001004199
1,928 Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus 1992 PODS 9.4692029e-05
4,072 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.9258731e-05
5,309 Collections of Objects in SQL3 1993 VLDB 6.2709843e-05
5,916 Tables As a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring 1996 PODS 6.0433046e-05
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