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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
0.00024465994
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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270 BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs 2007 SIGMOD 0.00022599109
293 Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases 2005 VLDB 0.00021943678
768 Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2006 SIGMOD 0.00014105849
942 SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 0.00012956137
1,114 Principles of Dataspace Systems 2006 PODS 0.00011964697
1,182 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.0001161771
1,261 Attribute-Driven Community Search 2017 VLDB 0.00011289708
1,501 Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010461358
1,565 Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs 2008 SIGMOD 0.00010220855
1,773 Rank-aware Query Optimization 2004 SIGMOD 9.6719067e-05
1,906 EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data 2008 SIGMOD 9.3981082e-05
2,025 OpenSearch-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Dynamic Few-shot and Consistency Alignment 2025 SIGMOD 9.163622e-05
2,046 On the Integration of Structure Indexes and Inverted Lists 2004 SIGMOD 9.1269888e-05
2,412 S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery 2015 SIGMOD 8.5101348e-05
2,414 Structured Search Result Differentiation 2009 VLDB 8.5081277e-05
2,643 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 8.177657e-05
2,840 Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing 2007 SIGMOD 7.9505128e-05
3,312 Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data 2009 SIGMOD 7.4385614e-05
3,509 Keyword Search on External Memory Data Graphs 2008 VLDB 7.2474338e-05
3,579 Efficiently Linking Text Documents with Relevant Structured Information 2006 VLDB 7.1923922e-05
3,902 CSV: Visualizing and Mining Cohesive Subgraphs 2008 SIGMOD 6.9340634e-05
4,140 Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach 2009 SIGMOD 6.7854783e-05
4,447 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.5968014e-05
4,567 Structured Annotations of Web Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.530229e-05
4,806 Finding Patterns in a Knowledge Base using Keywords to Compose Table Answers 2014 VLDB 6.4082256e-05
4,842 REX: Explaining Relationships between Entity Pairs 2012 VLDB 6.3841337e-05
5,155 An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.250495e-05
5,508 SiriusBI: A Comprehensive LLM-Powered Solution for Data Analytics in Business Intelligence 2025 VLDB 6.0997019e-05
5,724 Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases 2009 SIGMOD 6.0174945e-05
5,845 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 5.9729417e-05
6,568 Supporting Keyword Search in Product Database: A Probabilistic Approach 2013 VLDB 5.7466734e-05
6,594 MeanKS: Meaningful Keyword Search in Relational Databases with Complex Schema 2014 SIGMOD 5.74194e-05
6,900 Keyword Query Cleaning 2008 VLDB 5.6520478e-05
6,980 DBease: Making Databases User-friendly and Easily Accessible 2011 CIDR 5.6288191e-05
6,993 Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questions Via A Self-Supervised Approach 2023 SIGMOD 5.626765e-05
6,997 Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach 2011 SIGMOD 5.6254522e-05
7,041 NUITS: A Novel User Interface for Efficient Keyword Search over Databases 2006 VLDB 5.6143673e-05
7,147 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 5.599306e-05
7,150 Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks 2020 VLDB 5.5986232e-05
7,168 Adaptive Stream Filters for Entity-based Queries with Non-Value Tolerance 2005 VLDB 5.5947893e-05
7,824 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 5.445981e-05
8,180 Full-Power Graph Querying: State of the Art and Challenges 2023 VLDB 5.3820899e-05
8,287 Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data Sources 2009 SIGMOD 5.3617357e-05
8,439 Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for Keyword Search 2015 SIGMOD 5.3350162e-05
8,501 Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views 2007 VLDB 5.3296585e-05
8,964 Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources 2023 VLDB 5.2482562e-05
9,098 Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data 2010 VLDB 5.2283159e-05
9,592 Size-l Object Summaries for Relational Keyword Search 2012 VLDB 5.1564222e-05
9,974 A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases 2008 SIGMOD 5.1033245e-05
9,975 An Effective and Versatile Keyword Search Engine on Heterogenous Data Sources 2008 VLDB 5.1033245e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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 0.0010679641
38 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00047394041
81 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00036346781
303 Proximity Search in Databases 1998 VLDB 0.0002164278
418 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00018617842
507 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00017101297
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