BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases

Summary: BANKS enables keyword search in relational databases with integrated data and schema browsing. Users query by keywords, follow hyperlinks, and interact with controls to extract information without schema knowledge or SQL; ranking drives results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8933
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 9.8916725e-05
Overall Rank: 1,972 | 86.29%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
548	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.00020391259
1,510	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00011606901
2,599	Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *	2005	CIDR	8.4702307e-05
3,758	Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach	2011	SIGMOD	6.7824746e-05
4,038	Querying Complex Structured Databases	2007	VLDB	6.5082212e-05
4,695	DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool	2015	SIGMOD	5.9927993e-05
5,281	State of the Art and Open Challenges in Natural Language Interfaces to Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.5896272e-05
5,937	DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations	2015	CIDR	5.2650964e-05
6,845	Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach	2011	SIGMOD	4.9092609e-05
8,029	Understanding Queries in a Search Database System	2010	PODS	4.6028544e-05
8,750	Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges	2023	VLDB	4.456315e-05
8,766	Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data	2010	VLDB	4.456315e-05
9,183	Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search	2012	VLDB	4.3799925e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
54	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00066047203
927	DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language	1998	VLDB	0.00015248642

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