DICE: Data Discovery by Example

Summary: Data discovery across heterogeneous sources by example in data lakes. DICE synthesizes candidate join-path queries, then iteratively refines them with user validation, enabling schema-free, interactive discovery of relevant data for analysts. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12482
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.7684686e-05
Overall Rank: 7,303 | 49.20%
DOI: 10.14778/3476311.3476353

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,035	Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data	2024	VLDB	4.4039656e-05
9,826	Exploiting Structure in Regular Expression Queries	2023	SIGMOD	4.2751057e-05
9,928	Fainder: A Fast and Accurate Index for Distribution-Aware Dataset Search	2024	VLDB	4.2511622e-05
10,197	Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,829	Sort it Like You Mean It: Discovering Semantically Interesting Attribute Augmentations to Sort Tables	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,379	Fast Dataset Search with Earth Mover’s Distance	2022	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
13,201	Examples are All You Need: Iterative Data Discovery by Example in Data Lakes	2022	CIDR	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,277	The Data Civilizer System	2017	CIDR	0.00012879695
1,430	Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012031061
1,459	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011889802
1,509	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011612727
2,576	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.5112408e-05
3,661	Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity	2019	VLDB	6.8689912e-05
5,684	Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger	2020	CIDR	5.3720749e-05

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10,685	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
3,070	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	7.6137064e-05
1,846	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	0.00010335419
13,201	Examples are All You Need: Iterative Data Discovery by Example in Data Lakes	2022	CIDR	-