Dscaler: Synthetically Scaling A Given Relational Database

Summary: Dscaler is the first solution to non-uniform dataset scaling, allowing each relational table to grow at a distinct rate. Its correlation database models fine-grained per-tuple PK–FK dependencies, yielding more faithful distributions and join aggregates than prior scalers. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11494
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.5281143e-05
Overall Rank: 7,866 | 46.04%
DOI: 10.14778/3007328.3007333

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Authors

1. J.W. Zhang (National University of Singapore)
2. Y.C. Tay (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zhang_vldb16,
        title = {{Dscaler: Synthetically Scaling A Given Relational Database}},
        author = {Zhang, J.W. and Tay, Y.C.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {14},
        doi = {10.14778/3007328.3007333},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3007328.3007333},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,037	HYDRA: A Dynamic Big Data Regenerator	2018	VLDB	5.5025567e-05
9,536	Database Gyms	2023	CIDR	5.2529727e-05
13,524	A Collaborative Framework for Tweaking Properties in A Synthetic Dataset	2018	VLDB	-

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
105	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033877899
136	Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering	1999	SIGMOD	0.00030123303
734	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014525584
938	Flexible Database Generators	2005	VLDB	0.00013089351
1,227	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00011582387
1,578	Simple and Realistic Data Generation	2006	VLDB	0.00010309264
1,806	Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation	2004	SIGMOD	9.7112151e-05
2,369	Data Generation using Declarative Constraints	2011	SIGMOD	8.682429e-05
3,201	Apples and Oranges: A Comparison of RDF Benchmarks and Real RDF Datasets	2011	SIGMOD	7.6419269e-05
3,404	Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking	2011	VLDB	7.4411075e-05
3,994	Generating Databases for Query Workloads	2010	VLDB	6.9686731e-05
4,222	Density Biased Sampling: An Improved Method for Data Mining and Clustering	2000	SIGMOD	6.8227421e-05
5,992	Just can't get enough - Synthesizing Big Data	2015	SIGMOD	6.0160344e-05
6,827	Sampling Dirty Data for Matching Attributes	2010	SIGMOD	5.7616041e-05
8,582	RBench: Application-Specific RDF Benchmarking	2015	SIGMOD	5.4081423e-05

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