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Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases

Summary: Introduces free-form keyword search over relational databases, allowing IR-ranked AND/OR queries whose answers may be assembled across joined relations. Efficient top-k processing exploits native single-column text search and avoids materializing all matches, yielding strong empirical gains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
hd935bdb846e8cdc2
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00024417824
Overall Rank
217 | 98.55%
DOI
10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50080-X

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BibTeX Citation

@article{hristidis_vldb03,
        title = {{Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases}},
        author = {Hristidis, Vagelis and Gravano, Luis and Papakonstantinou, Yannis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50080-X},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50080-X},
        year = {2003}
}

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272 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00022559588
294 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00021884041
777 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00014059304
947 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00012910239
1,120 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.00011920747
1,177 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00011610316
1,234 Attribute-Driven Community Search 2017 VLDB 0.0001138939
1,505 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010424285
1,566 Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 0.00010183731
1,712 Rank-aware Query Optimization 2004 SIGMOD 9.7961248e-05
1,914 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.3684002e-05
1,977 OpenSearch-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Dynamic Few-shot and Consistency Alignment 2025 SIGMOD 9.2659291e-05
2,058 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.0944201e-05
2,416 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.4837888e-05
2,424 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 8.4760069e-05
2,653 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 8.1494409e-05
2,849 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 7.92193e-05
3,323 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.4116032e-05
3,512 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 7.2253736e-05
3,592 Efficiently Linking Text Documents with Relevant Structured Information 2006 VLDB 7.1652162e-05
3,903 CSV: Visualizing and Mining Cohesive Subgraphs 2008 SIGMOD 6.9150978e-05
4,156 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.7602028e-05
4,470 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.5723715e-05
4,566 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.5177032e-05
4,830 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 6.3840861e-05
4,866 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.3600397e-05
5,111 An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.2579636e-05
5,534 SiriusBI: A Comprehensive LLM-Powered Solution for Data Analytics in Business Intelligence 2025 VLDB 6.0766545e-05
5,734 Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases 2009 SIGMOD 5.9961591e-05
5,855 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.9516101e-05
6,580 Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach 2013 VLDB 5.7252093e-05
6,595 MeanKS: Meaningful Keyword Search in Relational Databases with Complex Schema 2014 SIGMOD 5.7221191e-05
6,614 Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questions Via A Self-Supervised Approach 2023 SIGMOD 5.7164731e-05
6,919 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 5.6312172e-05
7,004 DBease: Making Databases User-friendly and Easily Accessible 2011 CIDR 5.6075521e-05
7,014 Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach 2011 SIGMOD 5.60446e-05
7,063 NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases 2006 VLDB 5.5932475e-05
7,066 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 5.5928342e-05
7,165 Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks 2020 VLDB 5.5797415e-05
7,192 Adaptive Stream Filters for Entity-based Queries with Non-Value Tolerance 2005 VLDB 5.5736733e-05
7,846 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 5.4254046e-05
8,204 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 5.3617539e-05
8,304 Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources 2009 SIGMOD 5.3428225e-05
8,463 Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for Keyword Search 2015 SIGMOD 5.3148581e-05
8,523 Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views 2007 VLDB 5.3095398e-05
8,994 Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources 2023 VLDB 5.2284279e-05
9,127 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 5.208561e-05
9,626 Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search 2012 VLDB 5.1369628e-05
9,920 Relaxation in Text Search using Taxonomies 2008 VLDB 5.0983269e-05
10,011 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 5.084061e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
5 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0010688884
38 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00047300197
81 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00036224963
303 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.00021577595
419 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00018558415
511 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00017061618
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