DocDB: A Database for Unstructured Document Analysis
Summary: DocDB targets LLM extraction as the bottleneck in SQL-like document analytics. Its two-level relevance index and document-adaptive plans selectively process text and minimize costly, heterogeneous extraction calls. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Zequn Li (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- 2. Yuanhao Zhong (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- 3. Chengliang Chai (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- 4. Zhaoze Sun (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- 5. Yuhao Deng (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- 6. Ye Yuan (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- 7. Guoren Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- 8. Lei Cao (University of Arizona)
BibTeX Citation
@article{li_vldb25,
title = {{DocDB: A Database for Unstructured Document Analysis}},
author = {Li, Zequn and Zhong, Yuanhao and Chai, Chengliang and Sun, Zhaoze and Deng, Yuhao and Yuan, Ye and Wang, Guoren and Cao, Lei},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {12},
pages = {5387--5390},
doi = {10.14778/3750601.3750678},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3750601.3750678},
year = {2025}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 6,886 | Multi-Objective Agentic Rewrites for Unstructured Data Processing | 2026 | VLDB | 5.6551172e-05 |
| 10,804 | Document-to-Database: Extraction Meets Relational Semantics | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 748 | Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing | 2025 | CIDR | 0.00014281926 |
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