Myriad: Scalable and Expressive Data Generation

Summary: Myriad is a scalable data-generation toolkit for expressive, rich generators that scale linearly in a shared-nothing cluster. It achieves terabyte-scale generation via a parallel execution strategy built on PRNGs with random-access support. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10616
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.6635058e-05
Overall Rank: 7,248 | 50.28%
DOI: 10.14778/2367502.2367530

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alexander Alexandrov (Technical University of Berlin)
2. Kostas Tzoumas (Technical University of Berlin)
3. Volker Markl (Technical University of Berlin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{alexandrov_vldb12,
        title = {{Myriad: Scalable and Expressive Data Generation}},
        author = {Alexandrov, Alexander and Tzoumas, Kostas and Markl, Volker},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1890--1893},
        doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367530},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367530},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,992	Just can't get enough - Synthesizing Big Data	2015	SIGMOD	6.0160344e-05
9,985	Projection-Compliant Database Generation	2022	VLDB	5.1842045e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,578	Simple and Realistic Data Generation	2006	VLDB	0.00010309264

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