DivDB: A System for Diversifying Query Results

Summary: DivDB delivers diversified query results to surface relevant items beyond the top-k. It provides an SQL-based extension for researchers to express diversification and a novice mode with hint-based speed/quality control, demonstrated on image collections. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10209
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.3789851e-05
Overall Rank: 4,181 | 70.92%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,725	Max-Sum Diversification, Monotone Submodular Functions and Dynamic Updates	2012	PODS	0.00010748322
7,195	Towards Tractability of the Diversity of Query Answers: Ultrametrics to the Rescue	2024	PODS	4.8037242e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,667	Structured Search Result Differentiation	2009	VLDB	0.00010960247

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