Integrating a Structured-Text Retrieval System with an Object-Oriented Database System

Summary: Integrates TextMachine (structured-text retrieval) into OpenODB by wrapping the retriever as an external information source via external functions. Query translation enables uniform SQL-like access to textual and structured data, delivering fused information and greater querying power. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha3849f95f34a0e0b
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 6.9261065e-05
Overall Rank: 3,919 | 73.66%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Tak W. Yan (Stanford University)
2. Jurgen Annevelink (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yan_vldb94,
        title = {{Integrating a Structured-Text Retrieval System with an Object-Oriented Database System}},
        author = {Yan, Tak W. and Annevelink, Jurgen},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {740},
        year = {1994}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
166	On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00027254612
2,286	Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques	1995	SIGMOD	8.6942645e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
689	Query Optimization in the Presence of Foreign Functions	1993	VLDB	0.00014752546
3,530	Extended User-Defined Indexing with Application to Textual Databases	1988	VLDB	7.2276073e-05
6,303	Efficiency of Nested Relational Document Database Systems	1991	VLDB	5.8184105e-05

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