Integrating SQL Databases with Content-specific Search Engines

Summary: Couples SQL databases with external content-specific search engines via query rewriting and table functions, importing ranked search results into relational plans. This reuses specialized indexes without extending the DBMS or decomposing the search engine. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8645
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 9.5982801e-05
Overall Rank: 1,859 | 87.25%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Stefan Dessloch (IBM)
2. Nelson Mattos (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dessloch_vldb97,
        title = {{Integrating SQL Databases with Content-specific Search Engines}},
        author = {Dessloch, Stefan and Mattos, Nelson},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
163	On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00027839792
301	Proximity Search in Databases	1998	VLDB	0.00022032878
1,106	WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web*	2000	SIGMOD	0.00012151041
3,036	On Parallel Processing of Aggregate and Scalar Functions in Object-Relational DBMS	1998	SIGMOD	7.8287552e-05
4,645	User-Defined Table Operators: Enhancing Extensibility for ORDBMS	1999	VLDB	6.5900051e-05
6,374	Ranking Objects by Exploiting Relationships: Computing Top-K over Aggregation	2006	SIGMOD	5.8945632e-05

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

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