Price-Optimal Querying with Data APIs
Summary: Lightweight history-aware pricing for data APIs to prevent double charging on repeated calls. Introduces refunds to reclaim previously purchased-but-unchanged data, delivering substantial cost savings and two-order-of-magnitude overhead reduction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Prasang Upadhyaya (University of Washington)
- 2. Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
- 3. Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@article{upadhyaya_vldb16,
title = {{Price-Optimal Querying with Data APIs}},
author = {Upadhyaya, Prasang and Balazinska, Magdalena and Suciu, Dan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {14},
pages = {1695--1706},
doi = {10.14778/3007328.3007335},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3007328.3007335},
year = {2016}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,066 | Efficient Task-Specific Data Valuation for Nearest Neighbor Algorithms | 2019 | VLDB | 0.00012333161 |
| 3,927 | Revenue Maximization for Query Pricing | 2020 | VLDB | 7.012417e-05 |
| 5,191 | QIRANA: A Framework for Scalable Query Pricing | 2017 | SIGMOD | 6.3265914e-05 |
| 6,272 | On Shapley Value in Data Assemblage Under Independent Utility | 2022 | VLDB | 5.9319813e-05 |
| 6,769 | QIRANA Demonstration: Real Time Scalable Query Pricing | 2017 | VLDB | 5.7788116e-05 |
| 6,939 | Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.7338637e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 409 | Semantic Data Caching and Replacement | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00018985783 |
| 733 | Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00014533437 |
| 1,861 | On Arbitrage-free Pricing for General Data Queries | 2014 | VLDB | 9.5965642e-05 |
| 2,342 | Query-Based Data Pricing | 2012 | PODS | 8.7217471e-05 |
| 2,719 | Toward Practical Query Pricing with QueryMarket | 2013 | SIGMOD | 8.209612e-05 |
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