DBXplorer: Enabling Keyword Search over Relational Databases
Summary: DBXplorer introduces a publish/search architecture for keyword search over relational databases. The publish phase builds a compact symbol table mapping keywords to database structure (tables, columns, and/or rows) by exploiting physical design to enable fast lookups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Sanjay Agrawal (Microsoft)
- 2. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
- 3. Gautam Das (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{agrawal_sigmod02,
title = {{DBXplorer: Enabling Keyword Search over Relational Databases}},
author = {Agrawal, Sanjay and Chaudhuri, Surajit and Das, Gautam},
series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/564691.564782},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564782},
year = {2002}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,445 | Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search | 2006 | PODS | 0.0001063035 |
| 1,565 | Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00010220855 |
| 3,349 | Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries | 2017 | VLDB | 7.391292e-05 |
| 6,900 | Keyword Query Cleaning | 2008 | VLDB | 5.6520478e-05 |
| 7,223 | Sapphire: Querying RDF Data Made Simple | 2016 | VLDB | 5.5817607e-05 |
| 7,408 | AJAXSearch: Crawling, Indexing and Searching Web 2.0 Applications | 2008 | VLDB | 5.5345052e-05 |
| 9,098 | Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data | 2010 | VLDB | 5.2283159e-05 |
| 12,604 | ColumbuScout: Towards Building Local Search Engines over Large Databases | 2012 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,999 | One Platform for Mining Structured and Unstructured Data: Dream or Reality? | 2006 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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