DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Advocates a unified DB&IR view and explains why integration remains hard across structured data and text. Root cause: diverging user models—programmers vs cognitive IR users—drives predicate matching in DB and ranking in IR; interactive bridging needed. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hf9f193d0e3ce5b28
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 7.8942007e-05
Overall Rank: 2,883 | 80.68%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247484

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Authors

1. Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{weikum_sigmod07,
        title = {{DB\&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract)}},
        author = {Weikum, Gerhard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247484},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247484},
        year = {2007}
}

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325	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.00020930941
1,709	EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically	2007	VLDB	9.797723e-05
2,479	A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data	2007	VLDB	8.3884752e-05
3,323	Keyword Search on Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2009	SIGMOD	7.4116032e-05
12,821	The Case for a Structured Approach to Managing Unstructured Data	2009	CIDR	4.9605343e-05

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38	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00047300197
164	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027451323
272	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00022559588
294	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00021884041
994	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012610224
998	To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks	2006	SIGMOD	0.00012590871
1,450	Finding and Approximating Top-k Answers in Keyword Proximity Search	2006	PODS	0.00010593808
2,291	A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration	2005	CIDR	8.680498e-05
2,406	Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *	2005	CIDR	8.4962449e-05
2,653	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	8.1494409e-05
3,040	Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web	2007	CIDR	7.7077337e-05
3,288	An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search	2005	VLDB	7.4398818e-05
5,333	Object-level Vertical Search	2007	CIDR	6.1620895e-05
6,702	Impliance: A Next Generation Information Management Appliance	2007	CIDR	5.687616e-05
7,353	One Table Stores All: Enabling Painless Free-and-Easy Data Publishing and Sharing	2007	CIDR	5.5293374e-05
8,546	XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities	2005	VLDB	5.3033443e-05
9,330	Community Systems: The World Online	2007	CIDR	5.1798176e-05
9,331	iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management	2006	VLDB	5.1798176e-05
9,332	The Continued Saga of DB-IR Integration	2004	VLDB	5.1798176e-05

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