PackageBuilder: From Tuples to Packages

Summary: Extends DBMS with package queries: packages are tuple sets satisfying per-tuple constraints and global constraints. PaQL, a declarative SQL-based language enabling pruning and solver-based evaluation to efficiently generate and navigate package results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11016
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.3039758e-05
Overall Rank: 9,221 | 36.74%
DOI: 10.14778/2733004.2733009

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Matteo Brucato (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
2. Rahul Ramakrishna (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
3. Azza Abouzied (New York University)
4. Alexandra Meliou (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@article{brucato_vldb14,
        title = {{PackageBuilder: From Tuples to Packages}},
        author = {Brucato, Matteo and Ramakrishna, Rahul and Abouzied, Azza and Meliou, Alexandra},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {13},
        pages = {1593--1604},
        doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733009},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733009},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,389	Query Refinement for Diverse Top-k Selection	2024	SIGMOD	5.8895166e-05
6,853	Scalable Package Queries in Relational Database Systems	2016	VLDB	5.7540003e-05
8,983	Stochastic Package Queries in Probabilistic Databases	2020	SIGMOD	5.3396928e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,096	Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012189583
2,932	Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems	2004	VLDB	7.9475864e-05

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