FastPDB: Towards Bag-Probabilistic Queries at Interactive Speeds

Summary: FastPDB tackles bag-probabilistic queries with bag semantics and PTIME data, but exact processing is slower than deterministic evaluation. It enables fast approximations by sampling monomials directly, avoiding upfront lineage, scalable to data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7100
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,724 | 40.15%
DOI: 10.1145/3709691

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Authors

1. Aaron Huber (State University of New York at Buffalo)
2. Oliver Kennedy (State University of New York at Buffalo)
3. Atri Rudra (State University of New York at Buffalo)
4. Zhuoyue Zhao (State University of New York at Buffalo)
5. Su Feng (Nanjing Tech University)
6. Boris Glavic (University of Illinois Chicago)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{huber_sigmod25,
        title = {{FastPDB: Towards Bag-Probabilistic Queries at Interactive Speeds}},
        author = {Huber, Aaron and Kennedy, Oliver and Rudra, Atri and Zhao, Zhuoyue and Feng, Su and Glavic, Boris},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3709691},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3709691},
        year = {2025}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,293	Variational Inference for De Finetti Logic	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059843817
112	HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference	2017	VLDB	0.00032801121
131	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00030424509
173	Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases	1986	VLDB	0.00027273858
238	MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002369322
331	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00020936658
579	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00016217563
593	Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks	2016	SIGMOD	0.00016027871
644	The Complexity of Query Reliability	1998	PODS	0.00015367965
1,041	The Dichotomy of Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Structures	2007	PODS	0.00012453494
1,332	Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints	2010	VLDB	0.00011129529
1,798	SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed	2018	VLDB	9.7361937e-05
1,965	ProvSQL: Provenance and Probability Management in PostgreSQL	2018	VLDB	9.3852716e-05
3,453	On Join Sampling and the Hardness of Combinatorial Output-Sensitive Join Algorithms	2023	PODS	7.4004131e-05
3,941	Guaranteeing the O~(AGM/OUT) Runtime for Uniform Sampling and Size Estimation over Joins	2023	PODS	7.0074268e-05
4,811	Uncertainty Annotated Databases - A Lightweight Approach for Approximating Certain Answers	2019	SIGMOD	6.4983069e-05
5,672	MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database	2010	VLDB	6.1261535e-05
5,906	Approximate Query Engines: Commercial Challenges and Research Opportunities	2017	SIGMOD	6.0457047e-05
5,971	Lenses: An On-Demand Approach to ETL	2015	VLDB	6.0243066e-05
8,260	Efficient Uncertainty Tracking for Complex Queries with Attribute-level Bounds	2021	SIGMOD	5.4574671e-05
8,476	Anytime Approximation in Probabilistic Databases via Scaled Dissociations	2019	SIGMOD	5.4170414e-05
9,194	Efficient Approximation of Certain and Possible Answers for Ranking and Window Queries over Uncertain Data	2023	VLDB	5.3058708e-05

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