A Declarative Query Processing System for Nowcasting

Summary: RaccoonDB declaratively specifies nowcasting models over massive social-media corpora, supporting human-in-the-loop exploration. Specialized optimizations deliver 424× speedups, while a ground-truth-free quality alarm improves reliability; evaluated on 40B tweets. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11617
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,000 | 17.67%
DOI: 10.14778/3021924.3021931

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Authors

1. Dolan Antenucci (University of Michigan)
2. Michael R. Anderson (University of Michigan)
3. Michael Cafarella (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{antenucci_vldb17,
        title = {{A Declarative Query Processing System for Nowcasting}},
        author = {Antenucci, Dolan and Anderson, Michael R. and Cafarella, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {3},
        pages = {145--156},
        doi = {10.14778/3021924.3021931},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3021924.3021931},
        year = {2017}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,960	Constraint-based Explanation and Repair of Filter-based Transformations	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-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
170	Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems	1996	PODS	0.00027376361
308	Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00021787597
410	SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.0001890421
509	Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00017220967
640	Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015409494
846	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013658824
7,409	From Regular Expressions to Nested Words: Unifying Languages and Query Execution for Relational and XML Sequences	2010	VLDB	5.6243e-05

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