NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System

Summary: NADEEF: commodity end-to-end data cleaning platform with a programmable rule interface and a core for detection and repair. Extends beyond CFDs/MDs/ETL; core cleans holistically with two repair-algorithm implementations; validated on real data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4796
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00014617251
Overall Rank: 725 | 95.03%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465327

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Authors

1. Michele Dallachiesa (University of Trento)
2. Amr Ebaid (Purdue University)
3. Ahmed Eldawy (University of Minnesota)
4. Ahmed Elmagarmid (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
5. Ihab F. Ilyas (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
6. Mourad Ouzzani (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
7. Nan Tang (Qatar Computing Research Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dallachiesa_sigmod13,
        title = {{NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System}},
        author = {Dallachiesa, Michele and Ebaid, Amr and Eldawy, Ahmed and Elmagarmid, Ahmed and Ilyas, Ihab F. and Ouzzani, Mourad and Tang, Nan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465327},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465327},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 56 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,867	Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,925	Meaningful Data Erasure in the Presence of Dependencies	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,966	UniClean: A Scalable Data Cleaning Solution for Mixed Errors based on Unified Cleaners and Optimized Cleaning Workflow	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,417	Demystifying the QoS and QoE of Edge-hosted Video Streaming Applications in the Wild with SNESet	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,877	IHCS: An Integrated Hybrid Cleaning System	2019	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,042	BART in Action: Error Generation and Empirical Evaluations of Data-Cleaning Systems	2016	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
94	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00034616103
185	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00026231189
201	Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms	2001	VLDB	0.00025558602
494	Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality	2008	PODS	0.00017526549
533	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.0001705859
549	ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning	2010	SIGMOD	0.00016692839
619	Reasoning about Record Matching Rules	2009	VLDB	0.00015707247
714	Guided Data Repair	2011	VLDB	0.00014662041
998	Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data	2010	VLDB	0.0001275238
2,782	Interaction between Record Matching and Data Repairing	2011	SIGMOD	8.1280264e-05

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