InsightNotes: Summary-Based Annotation Management in Relational Databases

Summary: InsightNotes provides a summary-based annotation management engine for relational DBs, building concise representations of large annotation corpora. A summary-aware query processor with creation, maintenance, and zoom-in optimizations delivers up to 100x speedups on real data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h47f44c083c7dacc3
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.169189e-05
Overall Rank: 9,479 | 36.30%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2610501

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Dongqing Xiao (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
2. Mohamed Y. Eltabakh (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{xiao_sigmod14,
        title = {{InsightNotes: Summary-Based Annotation Management in Relational Databases}},
        author = {Xiao, Dongqing and Eltabakh, Mohamed Y.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2610501},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2610501},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,488	Approximate Summaries for Why and Why-not Provenance	2020	VLDB	5.7659318e-05
12,406	Even Metadata is Getting Big: Annotation Summarization using InsightNotes	2015	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,420	Proactive Annotation Management in Relational Databases	2015	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
514	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00016999652
525	An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00016889428
591	On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views	2002	PODS	0.00015882967
928	A Framework for Clustering Evolving Data Streams	2003	VLDB	0.0001301967
1,587	DBNotes: A Post-It System for Relational Databases based on Provenance	2005	SIGMOD	0.0001013806
5,372	Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach	2013	VLDB	6.1569567e-05
5,714	Believe It or Not: Adding Belief Annotations to Databases	2009	VLDB	6.0189313e-05

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