SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems

Summary: SchemaSQL extends SQL to uniformly query and transform relational data and metadata across multidatabase systems. Its distinctive features include instance-dependent schemas, data/metadata interchange, and horizontal or block aggregation, enabling powerful interoperability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h84aa95a1e6337c29
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 0.00010187094
Overall Rank: 1,578 | 89.40%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Laks V. S. Lakshmanan (Concordia University)
2. Fereidoon Sadri (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
3. Iyer N. Subramanian (Concordia University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lakshmanan_vldb96,
        title = {{SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems}},
        author = {Lakshmanan, Laks V. S. and Sadri, Fereidoon and Subramanian, Iyer N.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {239--250},
        year = {1996}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
95	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00034382643
591	Lineage Tracing for General Data Warehouse Transformations	2001	VLDB	0.00015888097
1,267	Querying XML Views of Relational Data	2001	VLDB	0.00011269152
1,369	Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems	2020	VLDB	0.00010899832
1,728	Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures	1998	SIGMOD	9.7779564e-05
1,871	Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation	2015	CIDR	9.464979e-05
6,312	Putting Context into Schema Matching	2006	VLDB	5.8171904e-05
6,736	Information Preserving XML Schema Embedding	2005	VLDB	5.6928321e-05
7,707	Data Exchange with Data-Metadata Translations	2008	VLDB	5.4726584e-05
10,335	Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data	2023	CIDR	5.0254535e-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
67	An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00038009523
79	Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling	1990	SIGMOD	0.00036487763
413	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018681401
1,011	Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract)	1990	PODS	0.00012529816
1,707	Language Features for Interoperability of Databases with Schematic Discrepancies	1991	SIGMOD	9.8298117e-05
1,961	Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus	1992	PODS	9.3092942e-05
4,158	Towards a Real Horn Clause Language	1988	VLDB	6.7735939e-05
5,431	Collections of Objects in SQL3	1993	VLDB	6.1330529e-05
6,022	Tables As a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring	1996	PODS	5.9127206e-05

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