LinkDB: A Probabilistic Linkage Database System

Summary: LinkDB is a probabilistic linkage database that stores linkages with the data instead of upfront merges. It performs on-demand runtime merges guided by query specifications, enabling results beyond traditional linkage/merge workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4498
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 4.4937074e-05
Overall Rank: 8,549 | 40.53%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,148	CHRONOS: Facilitating History Discovery by Linking Temporal Records	2012	VLDB	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
299	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00028525071
1,252	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00013033186
3,631	On-the-Fly Entity-Aware Query Processing in the Presence of Linkage	2010	VLDB	6.9014378e-05

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