AJAX: An Extensible Data Cleaning Tool

Summary: AJAX is an extensible data-cleaning tool that models programs as a directed graph of transformations (mapping, similarity-based matching, clustering, merging) via a declarative SQL-like language. It offers interactive execution and debugging, demonstrated on telecom consolidation and bibliographic normalization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3240
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 0.00018086135
Overall Rank: 691 | 95.20%
DOI: -

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Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
112	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00047045036
265	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00029763412
475	Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser	2002	SIGMOD	0.00022303253
623	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.00018996374
833	Guided Data Repair	2011	VLDB	0.00016138432
2,097	Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation	2015	CIDR	9.5489822e-05
3,105	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	7.5568954e-05
3,582	NADEEF/ER: Generic and Interactive Entity Resolution	2014	SIGMOD	6.9479263e-05
3,712	MOMA - A Mapping-based Object Matching System	2007	CIDR	6.823134e-05
3,713	GDR: A System for Guided Data Repair	2010	SIGMOD	6.8224341e-05
5,445	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	5.5020909e-05
6,042	MDedup: Duplicate Detection with Matching Dependencies	2020	VLDB	5.2405269e-05
12,624	Systematic Development of Data Mining-Based Data Quality Tools	2003	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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