Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries

Summary: First system for how-to queries (reverse data management): TiQL-to-MIP translation yields SQL-generated variables and constraints on an RDBMS. It adds data-aware optimizations and divide-and-conquer MIP decomposition, delivering strong TPC-H performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4536
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.00012315734
Overall Rank: 1,376 | 90.44%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alexandra Meliou
2. Dan Suciu

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 33 of 33 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
610	Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System	2015	SIGMOD	0.00019204048
1,454	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011921443
2,642	Messing Up with BART: Error Generation for Evaluating Data-Cleaning Algorithms	2016	VLDB	8.3925184e-05
2,759	Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0	2020	SIGMOD	8.1646193e-05
2,903	Data Provenance at Internet Scale: Architecture, Experiences, and the Road Ahead	2017	CIDR	7.9403877e-05
3,154	Searchlight: Enabling Integrated Search and Exploration over Large Multidimensional Data	2015	VLDB	7.470532e-05
4,661	Efficient Answering of Historical What-if Queries	2022	SIGMOD	6.0069281e-05
5,192	Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances	2019	SIGMOD	5.6324589e-05
5,227	Enabling SQL-based Training Data Debugging for Federated Learning	2022	VLDB	5.6156523e-05
5,454	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	5.4967096e-05
5,617	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	5.4085897e-05
5,660	Query Refinement for Diverse Top-k Selection	2024	SIGMOD	5.3859487e-05
5,718	Lineage-driven Fault Injection	2015	SIGMOD	5.3552421e-05
5,839	Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals	2023	VLDB	5.3073497e-05
5,844	Stage: Query Execution Time Prediction in Amazon Redshift	2024	SIGMOD	5.3060581e-05
6,320	Tiresias: A Demonstration of How-To Queries	2012	SIGMOD	5.107614e-05
6,529	Quantum Databases	2013	CIDR	5.0197832e-05
6,565	Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality	2022	VLDB	5.0033542e-05
6,665	Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries	2015	VLDB	4.9657158e-05
7,024	A Unified Approach for Resilience and Causal Responsibility with Integer Linear Programming (ILP) and LP Relaxations	2023	SIGMOD	4.8530001e-05
7,871	Scalable Package Queries in Relational Database Systems	2016	VLDB	4.626492e-05
8,139	Fast and Reliable Missing Data Contingency Analysis with Predicate-Constraints	2020	SIGMOD	4.5727142e-05
8,392	Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction	2019	SIGMOD	4.5234647e-05
8,718	Aggregated Deletion Propagation for Counting Conjunctive Query Answers	2021	VLDB	4.4566012e-05
8,853	Complaint-Driven Training Data Debugging at Interactive Speeds	2022	SIGMOD	4.4308213e-05
8,979	PackageBuilder: From Tuples to Packages	2014	VLDB	4.4144821e-05
9,183	Equivalence-Invariant Algebraic Provenance for Hyperplane Update Queries	2020	SIGMOD	4.3778211e-05
10,289	Efficient Query Repair for Aggregate Constraints	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,405	Ultraverse: An Efficient What-if Analysis Framework for Software Applications Interacting with Database Systems	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,639	Is Integer Linear Programming All You Need for Deletion Propagation?	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,762	Constraint-based Explanation and Repair of Filter-based Transformations	2018	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,022	A Provenance Framework for Data-Dependent Process Analysis	2014	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
13,419	PackageBuilder: Querying for packages of tuples	2014	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
31	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00078516827
300	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00028503742
322	MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data	2008	SIGMOD	0.00027523667
1,106	Provenance for Aggregate Queries	2011	PODS	0.00013976386
2,295	Data Generation using Declarative Constraints	2011	SIGMOD	9.0842571e-05
2,493	From Complete to Incomplete Information and Back	2007	SIGMOD	8.6470623e-05
3,224	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.3523336e-05
3,357	Relational Lenses: A Language for Updatable Views	2006	PODS	7.1738547e-05

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