DBCopilot: Scaling Natural Language Querying to Massive Databases

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03463v2
• Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:54:57 GMT
• Title: DBCopilot: Scaling Natural Language Querying to Massive Databases
• Authors: Tianshu Wang, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Xiaoyang Chen, Hao Wang, Zhenyu Zeng,
• Abstract summary: Existing methods face scalability challenges when dealing with massive, dynamically changing databases. This paper introduces DBCopilot, a framework that employs a compact and flexible copilot model for routing across massive databases.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Text-to-SQL simplifies database interactions by enabling non-experts to convert their natural language (NL) questions into Structured Query Language (SQL) queries. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have improved the zero-shot text-to-SQL paradigm, existing methods face scalability challenges when dealing with massive, dynamically changing databases. This paper introduces DBCopilot, a framework that addresses these challenges by employing a compact and flexible copilot model for routing across massive databases. Specifically, DBCopilot decouples the text-to-SQL process into schema routing and SQL generation, leveraging a lightweight sequence-to-sequence neural network-based router to formulate database connections and navigate natural language questions through databases and tables. The routed schemas and questions are then fed into LLMs for efficient SQL generation. Furthermore, DBCopilot also introduced a reverse schema-to-question generation paradigm, which can learn and adapt the router over massive databases automatically without requiring manual intervention. Experimental results demonstrate that DBCopilot is a scalable and effective solution for real-world text-to-SQL tasks, providing a significant advancement in handling large-scale schemas.

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