Unify: A System For Unstructured Data Analytics

Summary: Unify automates semantic analytics over unstructured data, avoiding fixed schemas and manual LLM plan orchestration. It combines preprogrammed and LLM-based operators with guided query decomposition and operator selection for natural-language workloads. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hb9a338f266ab8854
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.8083127e-05
Overall Rank: 6,379 | 57.12%
DOI: 10.14778/3750601.3750653

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jiayi Wang (Tsinghua University)
2. Yuan Li (Tsinghua University)
3. Jianming Wu (Tsinghua University)
4. Shihui Xu (Tsinghua University)
5. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb25,
        title = {{Unify: A System For Unstructured Data Analytics}},
        author = {Wang, Jiayi and Li, Yuan and Wu, Jianming and Xu, Shihui and Li, Guoliang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {12},
        pages = {5287--5290},
        doi = {10.14778/3750601.3750653},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3750601.3750653},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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6,886	Multi-Objective Agentic Rewrites for Unstructured Data Processing	2026	VLDB	5.6551172e-05
8,679	Relational Deep Dive: Error-Aware Queries Over Unstructured Data	2026	VLDB	5.2905577e-05
10,406	AgenticScholar: Agentic Data Management with Pipeline Orchestration for Scholarly Corpora	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,422	Bridging the Gap: Cardinality Estimation for Semantic Queries on Unstructured Data	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,738	OpenSQL: Data-Efficient Text-to-SQL for Open-Source LLMs via Synthesized Intermediate Supervision	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,841	Bolt-on, Verifiable Provenance for LLM-Powered Data Processing	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,858	Sema: A High-performance System for LLM-based Semantic Query Processing	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,978	CADENZA in Action: Breaking the Monolith with Intent-Dependent Plan Spaces for Semantic Queries	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,608	TrustBCI: A Trustworthy Platform for Collaborative Brain-Computer Interface Data Exchange	2026	VLDB	-

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Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
669	CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners	2024	CIDR	0.0001495987
748	Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing	2025	CIDR	0.00014281926
1,392	Symphony: Towards Natural Language Query Answering over Multi-modal Data Lakes	2023	CIDR	0.00010807936
1,658	D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	9.9642078e-05
4,142	AOP: Automated and Interactive LLM Pipeline Orchestration for Answering Complex Queries	2025	CIDR	6.7814795e-05

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