Bootstrapping Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems

Summary: Pay-as-you-go data integration; first completely self-configuring system. Auto-creates probabilistic mediated schema and mappings; scalable to 50–800 sources, delivering high-quality answers with no human intervention. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h7b3b681816620e6c
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 9.9378851e-05
Overall Rank: 1,667 | 88.80%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376702

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Anish Das Sarma (Stanford University)
2. Xin Dong (AT&T)
3. Alon Halevy (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sarma_sigmod08,
        title = {{Bootstrapping Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems}},
        author = {Sarma, Anish Das and Dong, Xin and Halevy, Alon},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376702},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376702},
        year = {2008}
}

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624	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015479826
888	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013255989
3,543	Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste	2009	CIDR	7.2154261e-05
4,549	Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future	2009	CIDR	6.5410269e-05
4,602	Reducing Uncertainty of Schema Matching via Crowdsourcing	2013	VLDB	6.5072085e-05
4,661	CrowdMatcher: Crowd-Assisted Schema Matching	2014	SIGMOD	6.4816387e-05
5,176	Scalable Data Exchange with Functional Dependencies	2010	VLDB	6.2415413e-05
5,256	Cooperative Update Exchange in the Youtopia System	2009	VLDB	6.2073004e-05
5,338	Dynamic Workload Driven Data Integration in Tableau	2012	SIGMOD	6.1744641e-05
5,523	A First Tutorial on Dataspaces	2008	VLDB	6.0951795e-05
5,651	Foundations of Uncertain-Data Integration	2010	VLDB	6.0521173e-05
6,883	ADnEV: Cross-Domain Schema Matching using Deep Similarity Matrix Adjustment and Evaluation	2020	VLDB	5.6565418e-05
7,260	Entity Resolution On-Demand	2022	VLDB	5.571581e-05
8,348	ConnectionLens: Finding Connections Across Heterogeneous Data Sources	2018	VLDB	5.3501859e-05
8,583	OneProvenance: Efficient Extraction of Dynamic Coarse-Grained Provenance From Database Query Event Logs	2023	VLDB	5.3092552e-05
12,385	Looking at Everything in Context	2015	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
12,657	Schema-As-You-Go: On Probabilistic Tagging and Querying of Wide Tables	2011	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,670	Pay-As-You-Go Mapping Selection in Dataspaces	2011	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,709	Schema Clustering and Retrieval for Multi-domain Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems	2010	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,729	US-SQL: Managing Uncertain Schemata	2010	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
407	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019026291
425	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018486061
715	Data Integration with Uncertainty	2007	VLDB	0.00014559092
801	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.0001387328
822	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013651306
888	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013255989
1,595	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00010131081
1,958	iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas	2004	SIGMOD	9.3145711e-05
2,417	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.4930877e-05

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