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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
9.0510858e-05
Overall Rank
2,085 | 86.03%
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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4,255 OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit 2010 SIGMOD 6.6852981e-05
4,446 Managing and Querying Transaction-time Databases under Schema Evolution 2008 VLDB 6.5801544e-05
4,675 Update Rewriting and Integrity Constraint Maintenance in a Schema Evolution Support System: PRISM++ 2011 VLDB 6.4584174e-05
5,004 Living in Parallel Realities – Co-Existing Schema Versions with a Bidirectional Database Evolution Language 2017 SIGMOD 6.3065951e-05
5,677 PRIMA: Archiving and Querying Historical Data with Evolving Schemas 2009 SIGMOD 6.0244439e-05
6,062 Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it 2020 CIDR 5.8829004e-05
6,670 Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis 2020 VLDB 5.6978388e-05
7,484 Reducing Ambiguity in Json Schema Discovery 2021 SIGMOD 5.5005016e-05
7,598 Scalable Architecture and Query Optimization for Transaction-time DBs with Evolving Schemas 2010 SIGMOD 5.4717609e-05
8,609 OneProvenance: Efficient Extraction of Dynamic Coarse-Grained Provenance From Database Query Event Logs 2023 VLDB 5.2892055e-05
9,306 Asymmetric-Partition Replication for Highly Scalable Distributed Transaction Processing in Practice 2020 VLDB 5.1859787e-05
10,216 Adaptive Schema Databases 2017 CIDR 5.0468526e-05
12,720 Exelixis: Evolving Ontology-Based Data Integration System 2011 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,785 CODS: Evolving Data Efficiently and Scalably in Column Oriented Databases 2010 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,809 Updatable and Evolvable Transforms for Virtual Databases 2010 VLDB 4.9605343e-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
193 Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems 2003 CIDR 0.0002567932
708 Composing Schema Mappings: Second-Order Dependencies to the Rescue 2004 PODS 0.00014605712
817 Composing Mappings Among Data Sources 2003 VLDB 0.00013671477
1,225 Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve 2005 VLDB 0.00011432568
1,361 MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage 2003 VLDB 0.00010889401
1,464 Inverting Schema Mappings 2006 PODS 0.00010547427
1,526 Composition of Mappings Given by Embedded Dependencies 2005 PODS 0.00010328706
1,774 Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management 2003 SIGMOD 9.6749725e-05
2,402 Quasi-inverses of Schema Mappings 2007 PODS 8.5051123e-05
2,418 Implementing Mapping Composition 2006 VLDB 8.4831825e-05
4,283 Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas 2003 VLDB 6.6712962e-05
4,446 Managing and Querying Transaction-time Databases under Schema Evolution 2008 VLDB 6.5801544e-05
7,202 Designing Information-Preserving Mapping Schemes for XML 2005 VLDB 5.5721675e-05
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