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Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases

Summary: Adapts IR-style relevance ranking to free-form keyword queries over relational data, returning top-k results across joins. Leverages single-column text search, supports AND/OR, and focuses on top-k optimization rather than exhaustive match enumeration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9029
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00029336949
Overall Rank
276 | 98.09%
DOI
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301 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028370644
336 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027020919
877 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00015714014
1,153 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013642866
1,201 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.0001334371
1,252 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.00013033186
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1,645 Attribute-Driven Community Search 2017 VLDB 0.00011037459
1,667 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 0.00010960247
2,125 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.4893973e-05
2,151 Efficiently Linking Text Documents with Relevant Structured Information 2006 VLDB 9.4252167e-05
2,161 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.4002771e-05
2,183 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 9.3439219e-05
2,224 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 9.251962e-05
2,393 Rank-aware Query Optimization 2004 SIGMOD 8.9016542e-05
2,576 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.5112408e-05
2,794 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 8.1140341e-05
3,450 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.0824082e-05
3,480 CSV: Visualizing and Mining Cohesive Subgraphs 2008 SIGMOD 7.0538737e-05
3,859 OpenSearch-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Dynamic Few-shot and Consistency Alignment 2025 SIGMOD 6.6907933e-05
4,063 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.4825871e-05
4,092 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4561959e-05
4,414 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.2056993e-05
4,592 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0613645e-05
4,838 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 5.8887949e-05
5,353 An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems 2021 SIGMOD 5.5521332e-05
5,419 Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases 2009 SIGMOD 5.5176475e-05
5,672 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.3784128e-05
6,335 Adaptive Stream Filters for Entity-based Queries with Non-Value Tolerance 2005 VLDB 5.1056594e-05
6,421 NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases 2006 VLDB 5.0687368e-05
6,576 Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach 2013 VLDB 5.0046315e-05
6,611 MeanKS: Meaningful Keyword Search in Relational Databases with Complex Schema 2014 SIGMOD 4.9950232e-05
6,729 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 4.9483065e-05
6,845 Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach 2011 SIGMOD 4.9092609e-05
6,855 DBease: Making Databases User-friendly and Easily Accessible 2011 CIDR 4.9062505e-05
7,256 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 4.7869419e-05
7,290 Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks 2020 VLDB 4.7742854e-05
7,326 Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources 2009 SIGMOD 4.7612871e-05
7,374 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 4.7494134e-05
7,868 Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questions Via A Self-Supervised Approach 2023 SIGMOD 4.6319504e-05
7,954 Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for Keyword Search 2015 SIGMOD 4.613363e-05
8,233 Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views 2007 VLDB 4.553591e-05
8,696 Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources 2023 VLDB 4.4660032e-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
9,589 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 4.3209273e-05
9,590 An Effective and Versatile Keyword Search Engine on Heterogenous Data Sources 2008 VLDB 4.3209273e-05
9,696 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 4.3023337e-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
7 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015496097
54 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00066047203
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00058443993
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00036215179
465 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022455702
552 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00020310903
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