Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment

Summary: SESAME models OLAP cases as modifications to warehouse views and facts, with formal syntax extending view-update semantics. A substitution-based lazy evaluator and a minterms/packed-forest rewriter optimize spreadsheet OLAP queries, yielding speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8650
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 0.00011873918
Overall Rank: 1,460 | 89.86%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,454	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011921443
1,547	Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	0.00011417795
1,646	Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis	2013	CIDR	0.00011026644
2,816	Bias in OLAP Queries: Detection, Explanation, and Removal (Or Think Twice About Your AVG-Query)	2018	SIGMOD	8.0747683e-05
3,224	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.3523336e-05
4,004	QC-Trees: An Efficient Summary Structure for Semantic OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	6.5401186e-05
4,661	Efficient Answering of Historical What-if Queries	2022	SIGMOD	6.0069281e-05
5,617	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	5.4085897e-05
6,565	Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality	2022	VLDB	5.0033542e-05
8,392	Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction	2019	SIGMOD	4.5234647e-05
10,405	Ultraverse: An Efficient What-if Analysis Framework for Software Applications Interacting with Database Systems	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.0011695087
55	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00065687017
82	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00054430106
97	Maintaining Views Incrementally	1993	SIGMOD	0.00050863077
309	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00028195213
963	Maintenance of Data Cubes and Summary Tables in a Warehouse	1997	SIGMOD	0.00014975448
971	Rewriting Aggregate Queries Using Views	1999	PODS	0.00014915911
2,730	A Framework for Implementing Hypothetical Queries	1997	SIGMOD	8.217357e-05
3,497	Cubetree: Organization of and Bulk Incremental Updates on the Data Cube	1997	SIGMOD	7.0372261e-05
5,440	Shrinking the Warehouse Update Window	1999	SIGMOD	5.5025519e-05

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