Generating Thousand Benchmark Queries in Seconds

Summary: QGEN generates arbitrary, undisclosed DSS query workloads matching statistical profiles. Linking query syntax to abstract data distributions enables comparable benchmarks that adapt to evolving access patterns while providing broad syntactic and semantic coverage. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9314
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.2519326e-05
Overall Rank: 2,690 | 81.55%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50091-7

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Meikel Poess (Oracle)
2. John M. Stephens, Jr. (Gradient Systems)

BibTeX Citation

@article{poess_vldb04,
        title = {{Generating Thousand Benchmark Queries in Seconds}},
        author = {Poess, Meikel and John M. Stephens, Jr.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {1045--1052},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50091-7},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50091-7},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
476	The Making of TPC-DS	2006	VLDB	0.00017860667
734	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014525584
2,044	Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS	2023	SIGMOD	9.2663577e-05
2,069	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.2293717e-05
3,063	Oracle Database Replay	2008	SIGMOD	7.802088e-05
3,173	Why You Should Run TPC-DS:A Workload Analysis	2007	VLDB	7.6664516e-05
3,903	Keep It Simple: Testing Databases via Differential Query Plans	2024	SIGMOD	7.0304586e-05
5,717	Consistent Synchronization Schemes for Workload Replay	2011	VLDB	6.1097906e-05
8,601	Goals and Benchmarks for Autonomic Configuration Recommenders	2005	SIGMOD	5.4048965e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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