Meet Charles, big data query advisor

Summary: Charles, a query-advisor that "queries the query space", decomposes a conjunctive-predicate query's extent into meaningful segments expressed in a new Segmentation Description Language (SDL). Novel algorithm generates SDL answers optimizing homogeneity, simplicity, breadth, and entropy. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hdd82a3f5b9ba821a
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.6315458e-05
Overall Rank: 4,368 | 70.64%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Thibault Sellam (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sellam_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{Meet Charles, big data query advisor}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Sellam, Thibault and Kersten, Martin},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,215	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011492648
2,648	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	8.1761271e-05
3,188	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	7.5535445e-05
8,326	The Cascading Analysts Algorithm	2018	SIGMOD	5.3540725e-05
12,240	QuestPro: Queries in SPARQL Through Provenance	2018	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,389	Capturing the Laws of (Data) Nature	2015	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
12,572	Fast Cartography for Data Explorers	2013	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.001052036
31	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00049839909
308	Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021473921
702	Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct	2009	VLDB	0.00014673738
861	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013402933
1,558	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00010257165
2,840	Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing	2007	SIGMOD	7.9505128e-05

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