Scalable Discovery of Unique Column Combinations

Summary: Ducc scales discovery of all unique and non-unique column combinations by framing it as a graph-coloring problem and applying a hybrid column-based DFS/random-walk pruning. Row-based pruning with scale-out deployment yields up to 631× faster than Gordian and 398× faster than HCA on multi-million-row datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10908
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 6.0022412e-05
Overall Rank: 4,682 | 67.43%
DOI: -

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224	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00032746205
560	Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality	2008	PODS	0.00020141923
1,188	On Generating Near-Optimal Tableaux for Conditional Functional Dependencies	2008	VLDB	0.00013441729
1,401	Extending Dependencies with Conditions	2007	VLDB	0.00012187775
1,664	On Multi-Column Foreign Key Discovery	2010	VLDB	0.00010976887
1,974	BHUNT: Automatic Discovery of Fuzzy Algebraic Constraints in Relational Data	2003	VLDB	9.8866171e-05
2,266	Estimating the Confidence of Conditional Functional Dependencies	2009	SIGMOD	9.1540815e-05
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