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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
9030
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00025118089
Overall Rank
210 | 98.55%
DOI
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268 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00022984157
297 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00022068839
734 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00014637186
911 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00013341117
1,148 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.00012051136
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1,519 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010567722
1,755 Rank-aware Query Optimization 2004 SIGMOD 9.9119728e-05
1,850 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.7014828e-05
1,979 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.4624505e-05
2,365 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 8.7622278e-05
2,372 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.7496762e-05
2,544 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 8.5083352e-05
2,735 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 8.2521911e-05
3,190 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.7236432e-05
3,362 OpenSearch-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Dynamic Few-shot and Consistency Alignment 2025 SIGMOD 7.547454e-05
3,403 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 7.5123237e-05
3,459 Efficiently Linking Text Documents with Relevant Structured Information 2006 VLDB 7.4714246e-05
3,753 CSV: Visualizing and Mining Cohesive Subgraphs 2008 SIGMOD 7.2047617e-05
3,989 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 7.0431521e-05
4,326 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.8328369e-05
4,446 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.7540161e-05
4,634 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 6.6563881e-05
4,678 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.6311829e-05
5,180 An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.397049e-05
5,530 Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases 2009 SIGMOD 6.2454881e-05
5,652 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 6.1998008e-05
6,371 Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach 2013 VLDB 5.9619855e-05
6,506 MeanKS: Meaningful Keyword Search in Relational Databases with Complex Schema 2014 SIGMOD 5.9141446e-05
6,661 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 5.8700319e-05
6,740 NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases 2006 VLDB 5.8440829e-05
6,770 Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach 2011 SIGMOD 5.8356374e-05
6,792 DBease: Making Databases User-friendly and Easily Accessible 2011 CIDR 5.8316338e-05
6,910 Adaptive Stream Filters for Entity-based Queries with Non-Value Tolerance 2005 VLDB 5.811645e-05
6,925 Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks 2020 VLDB 5.8073162e-05
7,026 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 5.7796096e-05
7,532 Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questions Via A Self-Supervised Approach 2023 SIGMOD 5.6575019e-05
7,537 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 5.6571966e-05
8,014 Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources 2009 SIGMOD 5.5648599e-05
8,138 Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for Keyword Search 2015 SIGMOD 5.5419908e-05
8,200 Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views 2007 VLDB 5.5363669e-05
8,729 Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources 2023 VLDB 5.4400908e-05
8,789 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 5.4311509e-05
8,806 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 5.4311509e-05
9,277 Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search 2012 VLDB 5.3564693e-05
9,647 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 5.3012521e-05
9,648 An Effective and Versatile Keyword Search Engine on Heterogenous Data Sources 2008 VLDB 5.3012521e-05
9,683 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 5.2931757e-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
5 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0010926229
36 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00048828554
74 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00037585693
290 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00022397482
401 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00019311637
484 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00017715658
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