PrefDB: Bringing Preferences Closer to the DBMS

Summary: PrefDB introduces a preference-aware relational model and algebra to express varied preferential queries. Hybrid, non-intrusive to the core, enables operator-level optimizations; PrefDBAdmin aids design, testing, and tuning of preferences. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4578
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 12,131 | 15.69%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Anastasios Arvanitis
2. Georgia Koutrika

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,032	Preference SQL - Design, Implementation, Experiences	2002	VLDB	0.00014546409
1,207	RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries	2005	SIGMOD	0.0001327437

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