Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System
Summary: Sindbad embeds three location-aware services (news feed, recommender, ranking) into PostgreSQL’s query processor, merging social and spatial relevance for a location-based SNS. The demo shows scalable PostgreSQL/Google Maps API implementation with web/phone GUIs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Mohamed Sarwat (University of Minnesota)
- 2. Jie Bao (University of Minnesota)
- 3. Ahmed Eldawy (University of Minnesota)
- 4. Justin J. Levandoski (Microsoft)
- 5. Amr Magdy (University of Minnesota)
- 6. Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{sarwat_sigmod12,
title = {{Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System}},
author = {Sarwat, Mohamed and Bao, Jie and Eldawy, Ahmed and Levandoski, Justin J. and Magdy, Amr and Mokbel, Mohamed F.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213923},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213923},
year = {2012}
}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,544 | RecDB in Action: Recommendation Made Easy in Relational Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 6.180013e-05 |
| 12,262 | Mobility and Social Networking: A Data Management Perspective | 2013 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,676 | Feeding Frenzy: Selectively Materializing Users' Event Feeds | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00010034449 |
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