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Overview of Data Exploration Techniques

Summary: Survey of database systems tailored for data exploration, enabling efficient knowledge discovery when goals are not fully specified. Describes storage and access primitives, interaction models for rapid focus, and future directions drawn from past work and emerging applications. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h2e58943d2b3ab474
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00011487268
Overall Rank
1,216 | 91.83%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2731084

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{idreos_sigmod15,
        title = {{Overview of Data Exploration Techniques}},
        author = {Idreos, Stratos and Papaemmanouil, Olga and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2731084},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2731084},
        year = {2015}
}

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1,828 DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models 2019 SIGMOD 9.547768e-05
2,840 Towards Sustainable Insights or why polygamy is bad for you 2017 CIDR 7.948968e-05
3,189 Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data 2017 SIGMOD 7.5499689e-05
3,377 RINSE: Interactive Data Series Exploration with ADS+ 2015 VLDB 7.354298e-05
3,985 Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis 2017 SIGMOD 6.8708857e-05
4,211 Efficient Selection of Geospatial Data on Maps for Interactive and Visualized Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 6.7290558e-05
4,499 Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview 2020 SIGMOD 6.5731941e-05
5,571 Exploring Change – A New Dimension of Data Analytics 2019 VLDB 6.0784555e-05
5,573 Database Benchmarking for Supporting Real-Time Interactive Querying of Large Data 2020 SIGMOD 6.0774723e-05
5,704 Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems 2025 VLDB 6.0286769e-05
5,935 Continuously Adaptive Similarity Search 2020 SIGMOD 5.9391038e-05
6,095 Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases 2016 VLDB 5.8867043e-05
7,199 Cross Modal Data Discovery over Structured and Unstructured Data Lakes 2023 VLDB 5.5864204e-05
7,454 PICASSO: Exploratory Search of Connected Subgraph Substructures in Graph Databases 2017 VLDB 5.5212328e-05
7,990 Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions 2017 SIGMOD 5.4100383e-05
8,054 Progressive Join Algorithms Considering User Preference 2021 CIDR 5.3978878e-05
8,517 DBChEx: Interactive Exploration of Data and Schema Change 2019 CIDR 5.3238194e-05
8,695 Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost? 2022 CIDR 5.2880532e-05
9,371 Exploring Exploratory Querying 2025 VLDB 5.1843659e-05
10,021 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 5.0935279e-05
10,130 An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets 2025 SIGMOD 5.0727027e-05
10,157 Threshold Queries in Theory and in the Wild 2022 VLDB 5.0691578e-05
10,238 Graph Exploration: From Users to Large Graphs 2017 SIGMOD 5.0544949e-05
10,310 VINCENT: Towards Efficient Exploratory Subgraph Search in Graph Databases 2022 VLDB 5.0377711e-05
11,385 Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,574 SeLeP: Learning Based Semantic Prefetching for Exploratory Database Workloads 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,921 Machine Programming: Turning Data into Programmer Productivity 2022 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,151 Query-Driven Learning for Next Generation Predictive Modeling & Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,154 Data Pipelines for User Group Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,293 Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates 2017 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-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
9 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00076265429
252 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023101361
335 The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System 1999 SIGMOD 0.000206533
495 Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language 2014 VLDB 0.00017363171
519 Query by Output 2009 SIGMOD 0.00016937515
721 TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser 1982 VLDB 0.00014521341
1,070 NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012179575
1,273 Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011243661
1,380 H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store 2014 SIGMOD 0.00010858313
1,428 Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems 2014 SIGMOD 0.0001069161
1,538 Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration 2013 CIDR 0.00010314313
1,608 SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality 2011 CIDR 0.00010085907
1,662 Rapid Sampling for Visualizations with Ordering Guarantees 2015 VLDB 9.9502569e-05
1,693 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8522869e-05
1,837 Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2011 VLDB 9.5315292e-05
1,845 Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture 2011 CIDR 9.5158088e-05
1,864 The Researcher's Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds 2011 VLDB 9.4802846e-05
1,927 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 9.362697e-05
1,951 VizDeck: Self-Organizing Dashboards for Visual Analytics 2012 SIGMOD 9.3168416e-05
2,132 Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm 2011 VLDB 8.991777e-05
2,180 Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System 2014 VLDB 8.9111325e-05
2,331 Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading 2014 SIGMOD 8.6253336e-05
2,384 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 8.5401256e-05
2,405 i3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of OLAP data cubes 2000 SIGMOD 8.5149289e-05
2,413 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.5063082e-05
2,607 dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips 2013 CIDR 8.2260445e-05
2,648 Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration 2014 SIGMOD 8.172373e-05
2,685 Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example 2013 PODS 8.1334309e-05
3,005 Gestural Query Specification 2014 VLDB 7.7609244e-05
3,059 The Case for RodentStore, an Adaptive, Declarative Storage System 2009 CIDR 7.6939894e-05
3,203 Interactive Data Exploration Using Semantic Windows 2014 SIGMOD 7.5392994e-05
3,606 Updating a Cracked Database 2007 SIGMOD 7.1653182e-05
3,879 Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2012 VLDB 6.9481594e-05
4,328 Playful Query Specification with DataPlay 2012 VLDB 6.6582731e-05
4,372 Meet Charles, big data query advisor 2013 CIDR 6.6284134e-05
4,989 Indexing for Interactive Exploration of Big Data Series 2014 SIGMOD 6.3234684e-05
5,169 Querying Without Keyboards 2013 CIDR 6.243071e-05
5,181 The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems 2014 VLDB 6.2377699e-05
5,459 SeeDB: Visualizing Database Queries Efficiently 2014 VLDB 6.1211089e-05
5,808 SCOUT: Prefetching for Latent Structure Following Queries 2012 VLDB 5.9850604e-05
6,005 Concurrency Control for Adaptive Indexing 2012 VLDB 5.9137728e-05
7,180 AstroShelf: Understanding the Universe Through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations 2012 SIGMOD 5.5907397e-05
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