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DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases

Summary: keyword-only search over relational DBs; returns qualifying joining networks of tuples containing all query keywords. two-stage: Candidate Network Generator enumerates join networks; Plan Generator builds reusable plans; optimal plan NP-hard; greedy yields near-optimal costs; experiments show tuning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8885
Venue
VLDB
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00048828554
Overall Rank
36 | 99.76%
DOI
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127 Efficient and Extensible Algorithms for Multi Query Optimization 2000 SIGMOD 0.00031128834
147 Common Expression Analysis in Database Applications 1982 SIGMOD 0.00029440496
290 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00022397482
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