JSON Data Management – Supporting Schema-less Development in RDBMS

Summary: Proposes three architectural principles to enable schema-less JSON development inside an RDBMS. Demonstrates SQL/JSON as a single declarative interface unifying relational and JSON data on a common platform. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h37779c400e95ddc4
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.93571e-05
Overall Rank: 2,854 | 80.82%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2595628

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Zhen Hua Liu (Oracle)
2. Beda Hammerschmidt (Oracle)
3. Doug McMahon (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod14,
        title = {{JSON Data Management – Supporting Schema-less Development in RDBMS}},
        author = {Liu, Zhen Hua and Hammerschmidt, Beda and McMahon, Doug},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2595628},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2595628},
        year = {2014}
}

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2,437	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.4668658e-05
3,083	Skipping-oriented Partitioning for Columnar Layouts	2017	VLDB	7.6620866e-05
3,354	JSON: Data model, Query languages and Schema specification	2017	PODS	7.3858289e-05
3,505	Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization	2016	VLDB	7.2474175e-05
3,725	Schema Management for Document Stores	2015	VLDB	7.067273e-05
3,917	JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data	2021	SIGMOD	6.925328e-05
6,520	Exploiting Common Patterns for Tree-Structured Data	2017	SIGMOD	5.7552712e-05
7,460	Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL	2016	SIGMOD	5.5197855e-05
7,699	STEED: An Analytical Database System for TrEE-structured Data	2017	VLDB	5.4742733e-05
8,011	Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities	2016	VLDB	5.406024e-05
9,048	Native JSON Datatype Support: Maturing SQL and NoSQL convergence in Oracle Database	2020	VLDB	5.2306166e-05
9,358	Management of Flexible Schema Data in RDBMSs - Opportunities and Limitations for NoSQL	2015	CIDR	5.1872626e-05
10,071	ReCG: Bottom-Up JSON Schema Discovery Using a Repetitive Cluster-and-Generalize Framework	2024	VLDB	5.0849989e-05
10,254	Accelerating Analytics with Dynamic In-Memory Expressions	2016	VLDB	5.0501823e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.0006897844
61	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.00039236924
166	On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00027241844
319	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021155013
617	F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales	2013	VLDB	0.00015548752
1,037	Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis	2011	VLDB	0.00012371105
1,056	Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data	2001	VLDB	0.00012243086
1,784	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.6466168e-05
2,016	On Brewing Fresh Espresso: LinkedIn’s Distributed Data Serving Platform	2013	SIGMOD	9.1819138e-05
2,082	Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database	2004	VLDB	9.0718964e-05
4,808	XML Schemas in Oracle XML DB	2003	VLDB	6.4053843e-05
7,085	Oracle Database Filesystem	2011	SIGMOD	5.6004025e-05
7,174	Towards An Enterprise XML Architecture	2005	SIGMOD	5.5915842e-05
12,879	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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