Summarizing Relational Databases

Summary: Relational DB summarization via a schema-graph random-walk stable-state score for tables, weighted by attribute entropies, to capture content and cross-table relations. A metric space over tables with Weighted k-Center clustering identifies core tables to summarize, delivering scalable, high-accuracy results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9944
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00011606901
Overall Rank: 1,510 | 89.50%
DOI: -

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1,009	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014653644
1,168	SODA: Generating SQL for Business Users	2012	VLDB	0.00013541143
1,796	Summary Graphs for Relational Database Schemas	2011	VLDB	0.00010524897
4,173	Automatic Example Queries for Ad Hoc Databases	2011	SIGMOD	6.3874627e-05
4,201	Meet Charles, big data query advisor	2013	CIDR	6.3639451e-05
4,565	Constructing and Exploring Composite Items	2010	SIGMOD	6.081125e-05
5,961	Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	5.2549663e-05
6,054	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.2325754e-05
6,611	MeanKS: Meaningful Keyword Search in Relational Databases with Complex Schema	2014	SIGMOD	4.9950232e-05
8,365	Efficient Summarization Framework for Multi-Attribute Uncertain Data	2014	SIGMOD	4.5357797e-05
9,490	Auto-BI: Automatically Build BI-Models Leveraging Local Join Prediction and Global Schema Graph	2023	VLDB	4.3341665e-05
10,305	Schuyler: Self-Supervised Clustering of Tables in Relational Databases	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-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
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030223397
1,271	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	0.00012923966
1,972	BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	9.8916725e-05
2,091	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.5608989e-05
2,704	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.2720556e-05
4,038	Querying Complex Structured Databases	2007	VLDB	6.5082212e-05

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