Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources

Summary: Garlic integrates heterogeneous legacy sources without altering storage through wrappers that expose object views, standard invocation/query interfaces, and source-specific capabilities to query planning. A flexible architecture supported wrappers for 10 diverse data sources, built quickly. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hf0c7c3dad7312ec7
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 0.00017761038
Overall Rank: 468 | 96.86%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mary Tork Roth (IBM)
2. Peter Schwarz (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{roth_vldb97,
        title = {{Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources}},
        author = {Roth, Mary Tork and Schwarz, Peter},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        volume = {23},
        pages = {266--275},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
154	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00028579704
173	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026826959
1,069	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012185253
1,130	WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web*	2000	SIGMOD	0.00011902078
1,204	Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F	1999	VLDB	0.0001154814
1,686	Garlic: A New Flavor of Federated Query Processing for DB2	2002	SIGMOD	9.8709217e-05
1,977	Data Wrangling: The Challenging Journey from the Wild to the Lake	2015	CIDR	9.2730808e-05
2,616	Query Optimization over Web Services	2006	VLDB	8.2253465e-05
2,619	Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries using Transient-Views	1998	SIGMOD	8.2215744e-05
2,945	Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources	1999	SIGMOD	7.8251112e-05
3,505	Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization	2016	VLDB	7.2508161e-05
3,520	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	7.2360022e-05
3,620	Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources	1997	VLDB	7.1548155e-05
4,638	Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS	1998	SIGMOD	6.4920463e-05
4,773	Cost Models DO Matter: Providing Cost Information for Diverse Data Sources in a Federated System	1999	VLDB	6.4212044e-05
4,804	Information Integration: the MOMIS Project Demonstration	2000	VLDB	6.4093268e-05
4,880	Loading a Cache with Query Results	1999	VLDB	6.3714546e-05
5,937	Integrating Information for On Demand Computing	2003	VLDB	5.9411711e-05
5,999	Heterogeneous Database Query Optimization in DB2 Universal DataJoiner	1998	VLDB	5.9198633e-05
6,278	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.8263939e-05
6,645	Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources	2006	SIGMOD	5.7224348e-05
7,449	Adaptable Query Optimization and Evaluation in Temporal Middleware	2001	SIGMOD	5.523861e-05
9,005	Parallel Querying with Non-Dedicated Computers	2005	VLDB	5.2388349e-05
9,418	MOCHA: A Self-Extensible Database Middleware System for Distributed Data Sources	2000	SIGMOD	5.1803485e-05
9,922	Unified Data Analytics: State-of-the-art and Open Problems	2022	VLDB	5.1103839e-05
11,258	Accio: Bolt-on Query Federation	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,256	Lusail: A System for Querying Linked Data at Scale	2018	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,966	SQLB: A Query Allocation Framework for Autonomous Consumers and Providers	2007	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,158	HyperQueries: Dynamic Distributed Query Processing on the Internet	2001	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,178	Approximate Query Translation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources	2000	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,196	DatabasePatchwork on the Internet	1999	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031630695
173	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026826959
196	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00025626873
344	R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries	1986	VLDB	0.00020461727
1,672	Some Experimental Results on Distributed Join Algorithms in a Local Network	1985	VLDB	9.9283778e-05
1,795	Data Access for the Masses through OLE DB	1996	SIGMOD	9.6206724e-05

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