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: 12483
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.773228e-05
Overall Rank: 7,276 | 49.44%
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
9,019	Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data	2024	VLDB	4.4052498e-05
9,825	Exploiting Structure in Regular Expression Queries	2023	SIGMOD	4.2710095e-05
9,928	Fainder: A Fast and Accurate Index for Distribution-Aware Dataset Search	2024	VLDB	4.2470891e-05
10,197	Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,833	Sort it Like You Mean It: Discovering Semantically Interesting Attribute Augmentations to Sort Tables	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,381	Fast Dataset Search with Earth Mover’s Distance	2022	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
13,215	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
1,274	The Data Civilizer System	2017	CIDR	0.00012869297
1,421	Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012052759
1,456	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011891284
1,502	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011614522
2,577	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.5066436e-05
3,662	Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity	2019	VLDB	6.8647421e-05
5,698	Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger	2020	CIDR	5.3669165e-05

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