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Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later

Summary: Ten years later, generic schema matching is treated as an independent problem, with taxonomy, a new matching algorithm, and a comparative evaluation framework. Surveys post-2001 advances, commercial deployments, and data-integration directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
haac996cd85fbce20
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00010454635
Overall Rank
1,505 | 89.89%
DOI
10.14778/3402707.3402708

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BibTeX Citation

@article{bernstein_vldb11,
        title = {{Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later}},
        author = {Bernstein, Philip A. and Madhavan, Jayant and Rahm, Erhard},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {695--706},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402708},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402708},
        year = {2011}
}

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Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

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367 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00019884846
2,255 Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources 2013 VLDB 8.7442418e-05
2,351 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.5928057e-05
3,254 Stitching Web Tables for Improving Matching Quality 2017 VLDB 7.4899241e-05
3,681 Generating Concise Entity Matching Rules 2017 SIGMOD 7.1014441e-05
5,572 Saga: A Scalable Framework for Optimizing Data Cleaning Pipelines for Machine Learning Applications 2023 SIGMOD 6.0802555e-05
7,781 LLM-Matcher: A Name-Based Schema Matching Tool using Large Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.4535721e-05
8,016 Generating Succinct Descriptions of Database Schemata for Cost-Efficient Prompting of Large Language Models 2024 VLDB 5.4065977e-05
8,144 Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus 2017 SIGMOD 5.3910618e-05
9,223 A Quantum-Leap into Schema Matching: Beyond 1-to-1 Matchings 2025 PODS 5.2056825e-05
9,549 GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example 2023 SIGMOD 5.1599622e-05
9,945 Meta-Mappings for Schema Mapping Reuse 2019 VLDB 5.1038482e-05
10,179 Adaptive Schema Databases 2017 CIDR 5.0659942e-05
12,203 (Artificial) Mind over Matter: Integrating Humans and Algorithms in Solving Matching Problems 2018 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,633 DrillBeyond: Enabling Business Analysts to Explore the Web of Open Data 2012 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
182 Schema Mapping as Query Discovery 2000 VLDB 0.00026277842
269 Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022620777
296 Generic Schema Matching with Cupid 2001 VLDB 0.00021867512
348 Crawling the Hidden Web 2001 VLDB 0.00020262145
407 COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches 2002 VLDB 0.00019026291
793 Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings 2007 SIGMOD 0.00013942384
801 Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001387328
814 An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web 2004 SIGMOD 0.00013719268
1,146 Schema and Ontology Matching with COMA++ 2005 SIGMOD 0.00011815973
1,220 Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve 2005 VLDB 0.00011474444
1,458 Inverting Schema Mappings 2006 PODS 0.00010585133
1,582 Google’s Deep-Web Crawl 2008 VLDB 0.00010173382
1,811 Supporting Executable Mappings in Model Management 2005 SIGMOD 9.5872249e-05
2,049 Merging Models Based on Given Correspondences 2003 VLDB 9.1214548e-05
2,390 Quasi-inverses of Schema Mappings 2007 PODS 8.5367469e-05
2,408 Implementing Mapping Composition 2006 VLDB 8.5146431e-05
2,498 Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases 2007 SIGMOD 8.3830999e-05
2,580 Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios 2005 VLDB 8.2716518e-05
2,901 Incremental Schema Matching 2006 VLDB 7.8830583e-05
4,087 Flexible String Matching Against Large Databases in Practice 2004 VLDB 6.8148535e-05
4,239 OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit 2010 SIGMOD 6.7096698e-05
5,498 HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching 2009 VLDB 6.1035636e-05
5,753 Interactive Generation of Integrated Schemas 2008 SIGMOD 6.0061265e-05
6,312 Putting Context into Schema Matching 2006 VLDB 5.8171904e-05
7,019 A Gauss Function Based Approach for Unbalanced Ontology Matching 2009 SIGMOD 5.6195541e-05
7,455 AgreementMaker: Efficient Matching for Large Real-World Schemas and Ontologies 2009 VLDB 5.5227353e-05
13,184 Panel: Is Generic Metadata Management Feasible? 2000 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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