Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science

Summary: Data-lake search integrated with Jupyter Notebook for interactive data science. Find joinable or linkable tables, schemas, and workflows; augment training data, extract features, and clean data, with core methods that generalize to program or script executions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4d19f779a3159c39
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 0.00011149857
Overall Rank: 1,293 | 91.31%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389726

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yi Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
2. Zachary G. Ives (University of Pennsylvania)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod20,
        title = {{Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science}},
        author = {Zhang, Yi and Ives, Zachary G.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389726},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389726},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 28 of 28 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,852	Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning	2023	VLDB	9.5004635e-05
1,988	SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search	2023	SIGMOD	9.2482448e-05
2,382	DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models	2023	VLDB	8.5458532e-05
3,090	Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries	2021	SIGMOD	7.6584982e-05
4,159	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	6.7717519e-05
5,276	MATE: Multi-Attribute Table Extraction	2022	VLDB	6.2002884e-05
5,401	RONIN: Data Lake Exploration	2021	VLDB	6.1462648e-05
5,701	Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems	2025	VLDB	6.0315322e-05
6,183	Causal Data Integration	2023	VLDB	5.8587542e-05
6,993	Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questions Via A Self-Supervised Approach	2023	SIGMOD	5.626765e-05
7,161	WarpGate: A Semantic Join Discovery System for Cloud Data Warehouses	2023	CIDR	5.596048e-05
8,528	A Demonstration of KGLac: A Data Discovery and Enrichment Platform for Data Science	2021	VLDB	5.3225503e-05
8,574	OmniMatch: Joinability Discovery in Data Products	2025	VLDB	5.312217e-05
9,025	Fainder: A Fast and Accurate Index for Distribution-Aware Dataset Search	2024	VLDB	5.2346997e-05
9,242	R2D2: Reducing Redundancy and Duplication in Data Lakes	2023	SIGMOD	5.2056825e-05
9,247	Data Lakes Empowered by Knowledge Graph Technologies	2021	SIGMOD	5.2056825e-05
10,058	Discovering Approximate Inclusion Dependencies	2025	VLDB	5.0875952e-05
10,499	Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,081	A Theoretical Framework for Distribution-Aware Dataset Search	2025	PODS	4.9793485e-05
11,100	A Rank-Based Approach to Recommender System’s Top-K Queries with Uncertain Scores	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,200	Table Overlap Estimation through Graph Embeddings	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,323	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,410	APEX-DAG: Library and Language independent Pipeline EXtraction	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,512	Determining the Largest Overlap between Tables	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,590	Enriching Relations with Additional Attributes for ER	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,598	Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,885	Fast Dataset Search with Earth Mover's Distance	2022	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,925	Detecting Layout Templates in Complex Multiregion Files	2022	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010679641
89	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00035129658
160	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00027837289
509	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00017071087
524	Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00016909926
624	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015479826
694	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014727089
757	Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web	2011	VLDB	0.00014205602
765	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00014125424
777	To Join or Not to Join? Thinking Twice about Joins before Feature Selection	2016	SIGMOD	0.00014054709
961	RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries	2005	SIGMOD	0.0001282305
972	The Data Civilizer System	2017	CIDR	0.00012763234
1,053	Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords	2012	VLDB	0.00012274222
1,133	Comparing Stars: On Approximating Graph Edit Distance	2009	VLDB	0.00011898162
1,318	LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search	2016	VLDB	0.00011047393
2,924	Constance: An Intelligent Data Lake System	2016	SIGMOD	7.8498312e-05
3,088	Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries	2008	VLDB	7.6596008e-05
3,288	Ten Years of WebTables	2018	VLDB	7.4530805e-05
3,843	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems over Data Science Stacks	2016	VLDB	6.987246e-05
4,491	Juneau: Data Lake Management for Jupyter	2019	VLDB	6.5778095e-05
6,447	User Feedback as a First Class Citizen in Information Integration Systems	2011	CIDR	5.7823613e-05

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