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MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data

Summary: MCDB: Monte Carlo framework for uncertain data. VG functions parameterized by SQL results store only parameters, not probabilities, and estimate distributions; supports joint distributions, queries, and functionals, via bundle-based processing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4025
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00027527389
Overall Rank
321 | 97.77%
DOI
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658 Towards a Unified Architecture for in-RDBMS Analytics 2012 SIGMOD 0.00018506577
667 Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive 2015 VLDB 0.00018440557
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1,162 k-Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Graphs 2010 VLDB 0.0001358105
1,371 Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012323502
1,624 Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints 2010 VLDB 0.00011099222
1,699 Sensitivity Analysis and Explanations for Robust Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases 2011 SIGMOD 0.00010858983
2,084 The Case for Predictive Database Systems: Opportunities and Challenges 2011 CIDR 9.5820534e-05
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2,186 Scalable Probabilistic Databases with Factor Graphs and MCMC 2010 VLDB 9.3378109e-05
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3,185 Top-k Queries on Uncertain Data: On Score Distribution and Typical Answers 2009 SIGMOD 7.4192604e-05
4,077 Towards High-Throughput Gibbs Sampling at Scale: A Study across Storage Managers 2013 SIGMOD 6.4678697e-05
4,106 Extracting Databases from Dark Data with DeepDive 2016 SIGMOD 6.4456184e-05
4,156 Uncertainty Management in Rule-Based Information Extraction Systems 2009 SIGMOD 6.3999205e-05
4,387 Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.2320072e-05
4,706 Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation 2012 VLDB 5.9820914e-05
4,720 Read-Once Functions and Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases 2010 VLDB 5.973811e-05
4,806 Uncertainty Annotated Databases - A Lightweight Approach for Approximating Certain Answers 2019 SIGMOD 5.9092698e-05
4,844 Data is Dead… Without What-If Models 2011 VLDB 5.8813803e-05
4,901 Probabilistic String Similarity Joins 2010 SIGMOD 5.8411648e-05
5,607 HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach 2022 SIGMOD 5.4137872e-05
5,764 PODS: A New Model and Processing Algorithms for Uncertain Data Streams 2010 SIGMOD 5.3369195e-05
5,779 Lenses: An On-Demand Approach to ETL 2015 VLDB 5.3307398e-05
5,808 Leveraging Spatio-Temporal Redundancy for RFID Data Cleansing 2010 SIGMOD 5.3185608e-05
5,874 Incrementally Maintaining Classification using an RDBMS 2011 VLDB 5.2930628e-05
5,964 Bridging Two Worlds with RICE: Integrating R into the SAP In-Memory Computing Engine 2011 VLDB 5.2520617e-05
5,969 MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database 2010 VLDB 5.2489117e-05
6,079 Querying Uncertain Data with Aggregate Constraints 2011 SIGMOD 5.2223439e-05
6,147 Probabilistic Databases with an Infinite Open-World Assumption 2019 PODS 5.1854833e-05
6,169 Approximate Lifted Inference with Probabilistic Databases 2015 VLDB 5.1716068e-05
6,321 Tiresias: A Demonstration of How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 5.112523e-05
6,705 Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Probabilistic Databases 2010 SIGMOD 4.9549359e-05
6,749 Evaluation of Probabilistic Threshold Queries in MCDB 2010 SIGMOD 4.9396725e-05
6,838 Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing 2009 CIDR 4.9109732e-05
6,960 Efficiently Answering Durability Prediction Queries 2021 SIGMOD 4.8849367e-05
7,787 Jigsaw: Efficient Optimization Over Uncertain Enterprise Data 2011 SIGMOD 4.6512526e-05
7,847 Set Similarity Join on Probabilistic Data 2010 VLDB 4.6365272e-05
7,941 Efficient Uncertainty Tracking for Complex Queries with Attribute-level Bounds 2021 SIGMOD 4.613363e-05
8,090 Probabilistic Histograms for Probabilistic Data 2009 VLDB 4.5888589e-05
8,340 Beta Probabilistic Databases: A Scalable Approach to Belief Updating and Parameter Learning 2017 SIGMOD 4.5433598e-05
8,705 Stochastic Package Queries in Probabilistic Databases 2020 SIGMOD 4.4646588e-05
8,765 Efficient Query Answering in Probabilistic RDF Graphs 2011 SIGMOD 4.456315e-05
8,888 E = MC^3: Managing Uncertain Enterprise Data in a Cluster-Computing Environment 2009 SIGMOD 4.4278238e-05
9,044 Efficient Approximation of Certain and Possible Answers for Ranking and Window Queries over Uncertain Data 2023 VLDB 4.4039656e-05
9,274 Ranking Distributed Probabilistic Data 2009 SIGMOD 4.3646295e-05
9,358 Probabilistic Nearest Neighbor Queries on Uncertain Moving Object Trajectories 2014 VLDB 4.3510473e-05
9,782 A*-tree: A Structure for Storage and Modeling of Uncertain Multidimensional Arrays 2010 VLDB 4.2856106e-05
9,831 sPaQLTooLs: A Stochastic Package Query Interface for Scalable Constrained Optimization 2020 VLDB 4.2751057e-05
10,377 FastPDB: Towards Bag-Probabilistic Queries at Interactive Speeds 2025 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-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
14 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.0010801504
299 Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.00028525071
469 MauveDB: Supporting Model-based User Views in Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.00022406923
760 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.00017053935
1,179 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00013457451
1,425 Scalable Approximate Query Processing With The DBO Engine 2007 SIGMOD 0.00012051353
1,705 U-DBMS: A Database System for Managing Constantly-Evolving Data 2005 VLDB 0.00010829958
2,978 Matching Twigs in Probabilistic XML 2007 VLDB 7.7845728e-05
3,372 OLAP over Imprecise Data with Domain Constraints 2007 VLDB 7.1683982e-05
3,929 Maximally Joining Probabilistic Data 2007 PODS 6.6248763e-05
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