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Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases

Summary: Efficient evaluation of complex SQL on probabilistic databases with rank-based results. Proposes an optimization algorithm that handles most queries; notes some are #P-complete, and offers approximation and Monte-Carlo methods for intractable cases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9194
Venue
VLDB
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00057797415
Overall Rank
74 | 99.49%
DOI
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468 MauveDB: Supporting Model-based User Views in Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.00022407392
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702 MYSTIQ: A system for finding more answers by using probabilities 2005 SIGMOD 0.00017848789
757 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.00017062337
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1,612 A Unified Approach to Ranking in Probabilistic Databases 2009 VLDB 0.00011142757
1,698 Sensitivity Analysis and Explanations for Robust Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases 2011 SIGMOD 0.00010857033
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4,384 Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.2251088e-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
8 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015436578
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
73 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.0005840064
150 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00041081536
427 Automated Ranking of Database Query Results 2003 CIDR 0.0002350378
453 The Theory Of Probabilistic Databases 1987 VLDB 0.00022801484
572 The Complexity of Query Reliability 1998 PODS 0.00019888988
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