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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
4026
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00024043655
Overall Rank
235 | 98.37%
DOI
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561 Towards a Unified Architecture for in-RDBMS Analytics 2012 SIGMOD 0.00016568485
589 Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive 2015 VLDB 0.00016077388
1,032 k-Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Graphs 2010 VLDB 0.00012602512
1,060 Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS 2011 VLDB 0.00012469279
1,084 Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012347994
1,313 Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints 2010 VLDB 0.00011294367
1,563 Sensitivity Analysis and Explanations for Robust Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases 2011 SIGMOD 0.00010402446
1,766 MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data 2017 SIGMOD 9.882533e-05
1,998 Scalable Probabilistic Databases with Factor Graphs and MCMC 2010 VLDB 9.415645e-05
2,156 The Case for Predictive Database Systems: Opportunities and Challenges 2011 CIDR 9.1277261e-05
2,839 Secondary-Storage Confidence Computation for Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities 2009 SIGMOD 8.1117137e-05
2,993 Top-k Queries on Uncertain Data: On Score Distribution and Typical Answers 2009 SIGMOD 7.9350302e-05
3,915 Towards High-Throughput Gibbs Sampling at Scale: A Study across Storage Managers 2013 SIGMOD 7.0850763e-05
3,921 Uncertainty Management in Rule-Based Information Extraction Systems 2009 SIGMOD 7.0819232e-05
4,022 Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation 2012 VLDB 7.0222831e-05
4,118 Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.9535811e-05
4,273 Read-Once Functions and Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases 2010 VLDB 6.8587835e-05
4,354 Extracting Databases from Dark Data with DeepDive 2016 SIGMOD 6.8160325e-05
4,685 Probabilistic String Similarity Joins 2010 SIGMOD 6.6272896e-05
4,748 Uncertainty Annotated Databases - A Lightweight Approach for Approximating Certain Answers 2019 SIGMOD 6.5987185e-05
4,990 HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach 2022 SIGMOD 6.4792672e-05
5,224 Data is Dead… Without What-If Models 2011 VLDB 6.3794471e-05
5,614 MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database 2010 VLDB 6.2137297e-05
5,746 Bridging Two Worlds with RICE: Integrating R into the SAP In-Memory Computing Engine 2011 VLDB 6.1643935e-05
5,754 Incrementally Maintaining Classification using an RDBMS 2011 VLDB 6.1624967e-05
5,758 Querying Uncertain Data with Aggregate Constraints 2011 SIGMOD 6.1615566e-05
5,766 Leveraging Spatio-Temporal Redundancy for RFID Data Cleansing 2010 SIGMOD 6.1596308e-05
5,884 Lenses: An On-Demand Approach to ETL 2015 VLDB 6.1173671e-05
5,915 Probabilistic Databases with an Infinite Open-World Assumption 2019 PODS 6.1052485e-05
5,920 Approximate Lifted Inference with Probabilistic Databases 2015 VLDB 6.1044584e-05
5,968 PODS: A New Model and Processing Algorithms for Uncertain Data Streams 2010 SIGMOD 6.0868533e-05
6,533 Tiresias: A Demonstration of How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 5.9069921e-05
6,601 Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing 2009 CIDR 5.8860028e-05
6,606 Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Probabilistic Databases 2010 SIGMOD 5.8853432e-05
6,654 Efficiently Answering Durability Prediction Queries 2021 SIGMOD 5.8715116e-05
6,802 Evaluation of Probabilistic Threshold Queries in MCDB 2010 SIGMOD 5.8293958e-05
7,716 Set Similarity Join on Probabilistic Data 2010 VLDB 5.6191266e-05
7,930 Probabilistic Histograms for Probabilistic Data 2009 VLDB 5.5814542e-05
8,125 Efficient Uncertainty Tracking for Complex Queries with Attribute-level Bounds 2021 SIGMOD 5.5419908e-05
8,187 Jigsaw: Efficient Optimization Over Uncertain Enterprise Data 2011 SIGMOD 5.5379387e-05
8,474 Beta Probabilistic Databases: A Scalable Approach to Belief Updating and Parameter Learning 2017 SIGMOD 5.4886234e-05
8,714 Stochastic Package Queries in Probabilistic Databases 2020 SIGMOD 5.4424942e-05
8,805 Efficient Query Answering in Probabilistic RDF Graphs 2011 SIGMOD 5.4311509e-05
8,982 E = MC^3: Managing Uncertain Enterprise Data in a Cluster-Computing Environment 2009 SIGMOD 5.4032722e-05
9,058 Efficient Approximation of Certain and Possible Answers for Ranking and Window Queries over Uncertain Data 2023 VLDB 5.3880466e-05
9,288 Ranking Distributed Probabilistic Data 2009 SIGMOD 5.3527848e-05
9,294 Probabilistic Nearest Neighbor Queries on Uncertain Moving Object Trajectories 2014 VLDB 5.3520417e-05
9,772 A*-tree: A Structure for Storage and Modeling of Uncertain Multidimensional Arrays 2010 VLDB 5.2759752e-05
9,825 sPaQLTooLs: A Stochastic Package Query Interface for Scalable Constrained Optimization 2020 VLDB 5.2648912e-05
10,389 FastPDB: Towards Bag-Probabilistic Queries at Interactive Speeds 2025 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-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
10 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00077936311
316 Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.00021468682
398 MauveDB: Supporting Model-based User Views in Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.00019336176
663 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.00015341439
1,059 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00012473603
1,061 Scalable Approximate Query Processing With The DBO Engine 2007 SIGMOD 0.00012468428
1,565 U-DBMS: A Database System for Managing Constantly-Evolving Data 2005 VLDB 0.00010398531
2,931 Matching Twigs in Probabilistic XML 2007 VLDB 8.0184975e-05
3,439 OLAP over Imprecise Data with Domain Constraints 2007 VLDB 7.4801591e-05
3,949 Maximally Joining Probabilistic Data 2007 PODS 7.0696458e-05
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