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Finding Related Tables

Summary: Framework capturing diverse relatedness among heterogeneous tables, including joinable and unionable candidates. Algorithms detect joinable/unionable related tables; scalable to over a million Wikipedia tables, enabling reuse and improved search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h665b4f7f2f533826
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00014526813
Overall Rank
718 | 95.18%
DOI
10.1145/2213836.2213962

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sarma_sigmod12,
        title = {{Finding Related Tables}},
        author = {Sarma, Anish Das and Fang, Lujun and Gupta, Nitin and Halevy, Alon and Lee, Hongrae and Wu, Fei and Xin, Reynold and Yu, Cong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213962},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213962},
        year = {2012}
}

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377 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00019564011
624 Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities 2019 VLDB 0.00015476813
694 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014721161
765 Table Union Search on Open Data 2018 VLDB 0.00014119196
1,854 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 9.4961138e-05
1,990 SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search 2023 SIGMOD 9.2443028e-05
2,155 Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets 2016 SIGMOD 8.9438447e-05
2,160 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 8.9373643e-05
2,352 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.5888676e-05
2,927 Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation 2020 SIGMOD 7.8407133e-05
3,247 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.4922601e-05
3,255 Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality 2017 VLDB 7.4864653e-05
3,289 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7.4500131e-05
3,386 Support the Data Enthusiast: Challenges for Next-Generation Data-Analysis Systems 2014 VLDB 7.3511473e-05
3,913 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.9274273e-05
4,159 Integrating Data Lake Tables 2023 VLDB 6.7687144e-05
4,411 LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes 2024 VLDB 6.6089506e-05
4,573 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.5257221e-05
5,279 MATE: Multi-Attribute Table Extraction 2022 VLDB 6.1973533e-05
5,340 Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First 2026 CIDR 6.1719029e-05
5,533 Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 6.0906707e-05
5,704 Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems 2025 VLDB 6.0286769e-05
6,139 DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations 2015 CIDR 5.870906e-05
6,247 Interactive Navigation of Open Data Linkages 2017 VLDB 5.8347624e-05
8,141 DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web 2015 VLDB 5.3902593e-05
8,407 Crossing the finish line faster when paddling the Data Lake with KAYAK 2017 VLDB 5.3365937e-05
8,744 Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment 2019 SIGMOD 5.287931e-05
9,066 NLC: Search Correlated Window Pairs on Long Time Series 2022 VLDB 5.226711e-05
9,197 SourceSight: Enabling Effective Source Selection 2016 SIGMOD 5.208891e-05
10,510 Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,903 MosaicJoin: Compact Semantic Sketches for Value-Level Join Discovery 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,209 Table Overlap Estimation through Graph Embeddings 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,331 LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,518 Determining the Largest Overlap between Tables 2024 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,393 Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration 2015 CIDR 4.9769913e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
60 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00039440583
89 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00035115118
316 Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships 2010 VLDB 0.00021212425
360 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020001237
484 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00017541069
757 Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web 2011 VLDB 0.00014199305
827 Adaptive Ordering of Pipelined Stream Filters 2004 SIGMOD 0.00013629035
1,112 Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration 2010 SIGMOD 0.00011975206
1,337 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00010982201
1,696 Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web [Extended Abstract] 2009 VLDB 9.8500557e-05
2,616 Query Optimization over Web Services 2006 VLDB 8.2215407e-05
4,474 Flow Algorithms for Two Pipelined Filter Ordering Problems 2006 PODS 6.5813764e-05
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