DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language

Summary: DataSpot enables nontechnical users to explore heterogeneous databases through free-form language and hypertext navigation. Its distinctive schema-less semi-structured “hyperbase” integrates source data, thesauri, and user associations for publishing and search. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h9a57f9568622e8b0
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00010774626
Overall Rank: 1,401 | 90.59%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Shaul Dar (Data Technologies Ltd.)
2. Gadi Entin (Data Technologies Ltd.)
3. Shai Geva (Data Technologies Ltd.)
4. Eran Palmon (Data Technologies Ltd.)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dar_vldb98,
        title = {{DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language}},
        author = {Dar, Shaul and Entin, Gadi and Geva, Shai and Palmon, Eran},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
81	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00036346781
303	Proximity Search in Databases	1998	VLDB	0.0002164278
1,114	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011964697
1,882	BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	9.4403196e-05
2,046	On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists	2004	SIGMOD	9.1269888e-05
2,242	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	8.7685327e-05
4,447	Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams	2007	SIGMOD	6.5968014e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031630695
130	A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data	1996	SIGMOD	0.00030320165
303	Proximity Search in Databases	1998	VLDB	0.0002164278
586	W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web	1995	VLDB	0.00015944965

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	9,883	DataLens: Making a Good First Impression	2009	SIGMOD
2	1,953	DBXplorer: Enabling Keyword Search over Relational Databases	2002	SIGMOD
3	14,508	Delaunay: a Database Visualization System	1997	SIGMOD
4	2,777	DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases	2018	SIGMOD
5	14,086	DBPubs: Multidimensional Exploration of Database Publications	2008	VLDB
6	4,328	Playful Query Specification with DataPlay	2012	VLDB
7	5,894	DataScope: Viewing Database Contents in Google Maps' Way	2007	VLDB
8	11,146	DataDazzle: Intelligent Data Exploration through Natural Language	2025	SIGMOD
9	13,217	DataSplash	1998	SIGMOD
10	13,221	DTL's DataSpot: Database Exploration as Easy as Browsing the Web...	1998	SIGMOD