RecDB in Action: Recommendation Made Easy in Relational Databases

Summary: RecDB in Action: relational DBMS for personalized recommendations on PostgreSQL. Restaurant and Movie demos validate practical workloads; VLDB 2013 paper-recommendation demo from DBLP shows direct support for recommender workloads in the DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10771
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.180013e-05
Overall Rank: 5,544 | 61.97%
DOI: 10.14778/2536274.2536308

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mohamed Sarwat (University of Minnesota)
2. James Avery (University of Minnesota)
3. Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sarwat_vldb13,
        title = {{RecDB in Action: Recommendation Made Easy in Relational Databases}},
        author = {Sarwat, Mohamed and Avery, James and Mokbel, Mohamed F.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1242--1245},
        doi = {10.14778/2536274.2536308},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536274.2536308},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,799	REACT: Context-Sensitive Recommendations for Data Analysis	2016	SIGMOD	5.7701345e-05
12,145	Structured Analytics in Social Media	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,048	FlexRecs: Expressing and Combining Flexible Recommendations	2009	SIGMOD	7.815276e-05
5,433	Supercharging Recommender Systems using Taxonomies for Learning User Purchase Behavior	2012	VLDB	6.2210009e-05
5,822	From del.icio.us to x.qui.site: Recommendations in Social Tagging Sites	2008	SIGMOD	6.0754684e-05
12,317	Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System	2012	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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