Database Paper Browser

Back to papers

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
9030
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00029322862
Overall Rank
278 | 98.07%
DOI
-

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 58 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
302 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00028343691
337 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00027002505
873 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.0001570125
1,153 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013633055
1,202 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.0001333126
1,251 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.0001302453
1,453 Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 0.00011921738
1,564 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011340407
1,645 Attribute-Driven Community Search 2017 VLDB 0.00011027616
1,664 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 0.0001096091
2,127 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.4806381e-05
2,156 Efficiently Linking Text Documents with Relevant Structured Information 2006 VLDB 9.416112e-05
2,166 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.3918483e-05
2,190 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 9.3356692e-05
2,229 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 9.2422485e-05
2,249 Rank-aware Query Optimization 2004 SIGMOD 9.1956569e-05
2,577 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.5066436e-05
2,801 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 8.1074407e-05
3,456 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.0756309e-05
3,485 CSV: Visualizing and Mining Cohesive Subgraphs 2008 SIGMOD 7.0470365e-05
3,862 OpenSearch-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Dynamic Few-shot and Consistency Alignment 2025 SIGMOD 6.68436e-05
4,064 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.4763384e-05
4,097 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4504937e-05
4,410 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.2012075e-05
4,593 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0559961e-05
4,838 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 5.883146e-05
5,363 An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems 2021 SIGMOD 5.5467941e-05
5,427 Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases 2009 SIGMOD 5.5126383e-05
5,683 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.3733855e-05
6,337 Adaptive Stream Filters for Entity-based Queries with Non-Value Tolerance 2005 VLDB 5.1008035e-05
6,413 NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases 2006 VLDB 5.0649653e-05
6,574 Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach 2013 VLDB 4.999847e-05
6,611 MeanKS: Meaningful Keyword Search in Relational Databases with Complex Schema 2014 SIGMOD 4.990288e-05
6,733 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 4.9435837e-05
6,844 Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach 2011 SIGMOD 4.9045718e-05
6,854 DBease: Making Databases User-friendly and Easily Accessible 2011 CIDR 4.901546e-05
7,253 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 4.7825469e-05
7,287 Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks 2020 VLDB 4.7697047e-05
7,322 Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources 2009 SIGMOD 4.7569445e-05
7,365 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 4.7459715e-05
7,869 Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questions Via A Self-Supervised Approach 2023 SIGMOD 4.6275089e-05
7,957 Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for Keyword Search 2015 SIGMOD 4.6089395e-05
8,230 Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views 2007 VLDB 4.5492215e-05
8,692 Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources 2023 VLDB 4.4617233e-05
8,746 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 4.4520434e-05
8,763 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 4.4520434e-05
9,187 Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search 2012 VLDB 4.375789e-05
9,589 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 4.3167828e-05
9,590 An Effective and Versatile Keyword Search Engine on Heterogenous Data Sources 2008 VLDB 4.3167828e-05
9,695 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 4.298211e-05
Previous Page 1 / 2 Next

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
8 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015436578
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.0005840064
186 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.0003618341
464 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022476798
551 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00020310856
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Semantically Similar Papers

Overall Rank Paper Year Venue Pagerank
9,327 Indexing for Keyword Search with Structured Constraints 2023 PODS 4.351469e-05
5,427 Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases 2009 SIGMOD 5.5126383e-05
4,593 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0559961e-05
3,766 Keyword Search over Relational Databases: A Metadata Approach 2011 SIGMOD 6.7753484e-05
9,065 Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases 2009 VLDB 4.3992275e-05
8,763 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 4.4520434e-05
1,202 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.0001333126
1,564 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011340407
5,683 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.3733855e-05
873 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.0001570125