Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment

Summary: Sesame brings what-if analysis into OLAP via formal scenario semantics for hypothetical warehouse-view and fact updates, supporting spreadsheet-style algebra. Lazy substitution plus operator-aware rewriting, using minterms and packed forests, yields major optimization gains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8840
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 9.629006e-05
Overall Rank: 1,845 | 87.35%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Andrey Balmin (University of California San Diego)
2. Thanos Papadimitriou (University of California Los Angeles)
3. Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@article{balmin_vldb00,
        title = {{Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment}},
        author = {Balmin, Andrey and Papadimitriou, Thanos and Papakonstantinou, Yannis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '00},
        pages = {220},
        year = {2000}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,687	Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	0.00010005718
1,952	Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis	2013	CIDR	9.4233049e-05
2,374	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	8.6755064e-05
2,546	Bias in OLAP Queries: Detection, Explanation, and Removal (Or Think Twice About Your AVG-Query)	2018	SIGMOD	8.4340413e-05
2,914	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.9667467e-05
3,774	QC-Trees: An Efficient Summary Structure for Semantic OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	7.1381444e-05
4,805	Efficient Answering of Historical What-if Queries	2022	SIGMOD	6.5003306e-05
5,025	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	6.3974766e-05
6,576	Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality	2022	VLDB	5.8364729e-05
8,509	Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction	2019	SIGMOD	5.4120069e-05
10,680	Ultraverse: An Efficient What-if Analysis Framework for Software Applications Interacting with Database Systems	2025	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
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.00071822821
39	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00047309646
61	Maintaining Views Incrementally	1993	SIGMOD	0.00039026867
69	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00038090878
268	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00022788687
869	Rewriting Aggregate Queries Using Views	1999	PODS	0.00013503594
905	Maintenance of Data Cubes and Summary Tables in a Warehouse	1997	SIGMOD	0.0001331508
3,002	A Framework for Implementing Hypothetical Queries	1997	SIGMOD	7.8667842e-05
3,379	Cubetree: Organization of and Bulk Incremental Updates on the Data Cube	1997	SIGMOD	7.4582502e-05
5,728	Shrinking the Warehouse Update Window	1999	SIGMOD	6.1073148e-05

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