MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database

Summary: MCDB-R extends Monte Carlo databases to risk analysis over probabilistic, uncertain data. It adapts Gibbs cloning to efficiently sample extreme upper or lower tails of query-result distributions, rather than estimating them via naive Monte Carlo. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10316
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 6.1261535e-05
Overall Rank: 5,672 | 61.09%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920941

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Authors

1. Subi Arumugam (University of Florida)
2. Fei Xu (Microsoft)
3. Ravi Jampani (University of Florida)
4. Christopher Jermaine (Rice University)
5. Luis L. Perez (Rice University)
6. Peter J. Haas (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{arumugam_vldb10,
        title = {{MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database}},
        author = {Arumugam, Subi and Xu, Fei and Jampani, Ravi and Jermaine, Christopher and Perez, Luis L. and Haas, Peter J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {782--793},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920941},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920941},
        year = {2010}
}

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2,990	Knowledge Expansion over Probabilistic Knowledge Bases	2014	SIGMOD	7.8883704e-05
5,015	Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	6.4000528e-05
6,761	Efficiently Answering Durability Prediction Queries	2021	SIGMOD	5.7822533e-05
8,192	Jigsaw: Efficient Optimization Over Uncertain Enterprise Data	2011	SIGMOD	5.4698006e-05
8,724	FastPDB: Towards Bag-Probabilistic Queries at Interactive Speeds	2025	SIGMOD	5.3766157e-05
12,166	Model-Data Ecosystems: Challenges, Tools, and Trends	2014	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
155	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00028713176
238	MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002369322
408	MauveDB: Supporting Model-based User Views in Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.00019008806
868	Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB	2009	CIDR	0.00013504796
1,437	Querying Continuous Functions in a Database System	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010790718
1,520	Conditioning Probabilistic Databases	2008	VLDB	0.00010510496

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