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Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench

Summary: PRISM supports online schema evolution via modification operators, impact analysis, query rewriting, and automatic data migration. Mapping composition/invertibility enable scalable versioning with provenance, rollback, and historical queries, validated across 170+ Wikipedia schemas. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h3df88df51885e113
Venue
VLDB
Year
2008
Pagerank
9.0810058e-05
Overall Rank
2,075 | 86.06%
DOI
10.14778/1453856.1453943

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BibTeX Citation

@article{curino_vldb08,
        title = {{Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench}},
        author = {Curino, Carlo A. and Moon, Hyun J. and Zaniolo, Carlo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {761--772},
        doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453943},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453943},
        year = {2008}
}

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4,239 OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit 2010 SIGMOD 6.7065847e-05
4,425 Managing and Querying Transaction-time Databases under Schema Evolution 2008 VLDB 6.6019689e-05
4,658 Update Rewriting and Integrity Constraint Maintenance in a Schema Evolution Support System: PRISM++ 2011 VLDB 6.4797461e-05
4,980 Living in Parallel Realities – Co-Existing Schema Versions with a Bidirectional Database Evolution Language 2017 SIGMOD 6.3275178e-05
5,665 PRIMA: Archiving and Querying Historical Data with Evolving Schemas 2009 SIGMOD 6.0444305e-05
6,048 Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it 2020 CIDR 5.9024167e-05
6,661 Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis 2020 VLDB 5.7159966e-05
7,465 Reducing Ambiguity in Json Schema Discovery 2021 SIGMOD 5.5187501e-05
7,584 Scalable Architecture and Query Optimization for Transaction-time DBs with Evolving Schemas 2010 SIGMOD 5.4898986e-05
8,590 OneProvenance: Efficient Extraction of Dynamic Coarse-Grained Provenance From Database Query Event Logs 2023 VLDB 5.3067446e-05
9,282 Asymmetric-Partition Replication for Highly Scalable Distributed Transaction Processing in Practice 2020 VLDB 5.2031837e-05
10,183 Adaptive Schema Databases 2017 CIDR 5.063596e-05
12,677 Exelixis: Evolving Ontology-Based Data Integration System 2011 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,742 CODS: Evolving Data Efficiently and Scalably in Column Oriented Databases 2010 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,766 Updatable and Evolvable Transforms for Virtual Databases 2010 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
191 Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems 2003 CIDR 0.00025757196
703 Composing Schema Mappings: Second-Order Dependencies to the Rescue 2004 PODS 0.00014653248
814 Composing Mappings Among Data Sources 2003 VLDB 0.000137163
1,222 Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve 2005 VLDB 0.00011469037
1,353 MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage 2003 VLDB 0.00010925367
1,460 Inverting Schema Mappings 2006 PODS 0.00010580166
1,522 Composition of Mappings Given by Embedded Dependencies 2005 PODS 0.00010362522
1,761 Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management 2003 SIGMOD 9.706149e-05
2,392 Quasi-inverses of Schema Mappings 2007 PODS 8.5327323e-05
2,410 Implementing Mapping Composition 2006 VLDB 8.5106165e-05
4,268 Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas 2003 VLDB 6.6932945e-05
4,425 Managing and Querying Transaction-time Databases under Schema Evolution 2008 VLDB 6.6019689e-05
7,181 Designing Information-Preserving Mapping Schemes for XML 2005 VLDB 5.5906468e-05
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