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: 4560
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,753 | 39.95%
DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989483

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Authors

1. Ekaterini Ioannou (Technical University of Crete)
2. Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S Research Center)
3. Claudia Niederée (L3S Research Center)
4. Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ioannou_sigmod11,
        title = {{LinkDB: A Probabilistic Linkage Database System}},
        author = {Ioannou, Ekaterini and Nejdl, Wolfgang and Niederée, Claudia and Velegrakis, Yannis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989483},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989483},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,344	CHRONOS: Facilitating History Discovery by Linking Temporal Records	2012	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
331	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00020936658
1,162	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011866011
3,514	On-the-Fly Entity-Aware Query Processing in the Presence of Linkage	2010	VLDB	7.3540873e-05

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