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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
0.00014626858
Overall Rank
705 | 95.28%
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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366 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00019902067
623 Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities 2019 VLDB 0.00015446839
679 JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014802
758 Table Union Search on Open Data 2018 VLDB 0.00014200657
1,742 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 9.7283207e-05
1,929 SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search 2023 SIGMOD 9.3458857e-05
2,097 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 9.0397587e-05
2,170 Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets 2016 SIGMOD 8.9149718e-05
2,289 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.6813411e-05
2,940 Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation 2020 SIGMOD 7.8206062e-05
3,231 Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality 2017 VLDB 7.4899308e-05
3,247 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7.4774952e-05
3,257 InfoGather+: Semantic Matching and Annotation of Numeric and Time-Varying Attributes in Web Tables 2013 SIGMOD 7.4732058e-05
3,394 Support the Data Enthusiast: Challenges for Next-Generation Data-Analysis Systems 2014 VLDB 7.3281693e-05
3,897 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.9202872e-05
4,158 Integrating Data Lake Tables 2023 VLDB 6.7595989e-05
4,419 LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes 2024 VLDB 6.5905711e-05
4,584 SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints 2017 VLDB 6.5070459e-05
5,041 MATE: Multi-Attribute Table Extraction 2022 VLDB 6.2899676e-05
5,355 Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First 2026 CIDR 6.1514948e-05
5,556 Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 6.0705311e-05
5,715 Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems 2025 VLDB 6.0087424e-05
6,157 DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations 2015 CIDR 5.8532316e-05
6,252 Interactive Navigation of Open Data Linkages 2017 VLDB 5.8179392e-05
8,159 DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web 2015 VLDB 5.3724358e-05
8,424 Crossing the finish line faster when paddling the Data Lake with KAYAK 2017 VLDB 5.3189694e-05
8,763 Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment 2019 SIGMOD 5.2705326e-05
9,086 NLC: Search Correlated Window Pairs on Long Time Series 2022 VLDB 5.2094282e-05
9,221 SourceSight: Enabling Effective Source Selection 2016 SIGMOD 5.1916672e-05
10,095 Table Overlap Estimation through Graph Embeddings 2025 SIGMOD 5.068372e-05
10,099 Determining the Largest Overlap between Tables 2024 SIGMOD 5.068372e-05
10,380 Alignment-Guided Largest Table Overlap Size Estimation 2027 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,576 Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,964 MosaicJoin: Compact Semantic Sketches for Value-Level Join Discovery 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,385 LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,436 Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration 2015 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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 0.00039343755
88 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 0.00035500667
314 Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships 2010 VLDB 0.0002126519
359 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00019963275
484 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 0.00017535511
753 Recovering Semantics of Tables on the Web 2011 VLDB 0.00014228161
824 Adaptive Ordering of Pipelined Stream Filters 2004 SIGMOD 0.0001360282
1,114 Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration 2010 SIGMOD 0.00011939972
1,336 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00010969394
1,694 Answering Table Augmentation Queries from Unstructured Lists on the Web [Extended Abstract] 2009 VLDB 9.8374023e-05
2,612 Query Optimization over Web Services 2006 VLDB 8.2025949e-05
4,478 Flow Algorithms for Two Pipelined Filter Ordering Problems 2006 PODS 6.5682405e-05
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