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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
9384
Venue
VLDB
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00043596705
Overall Rank
50 | 99.66%
DOI
10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50076-0

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BibTeX Citation

@article{dalvi_vldb04,
        title = {{Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases}},
        author = {Dalvi, Nilesh and Suciu, Dan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50076-0},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50076-0},
        year = {2004}
}

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17 Provenance Semirings 2007 PODS 0.00059843817
78 ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.00036571789
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586 ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases 2005 SIGMOD 0.00016124396
680 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.0001504854
683 MYSTIQ: A system for finding more answers by using probabilities 2005 SIGMOD 0.00015005338
820 BayesStore: Managing Large, Uncertain Data Repositories with Probabilistic Graphical Models 2008 VLDB 0.00013814535
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1,486 Indexing Multi-Dimensional Uncertain Data with Arbitrary Probability Density Functions 2005 VLDB 0.00010625076
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1,728 Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge 2007 CIDR 9.9098087e-05
1,752 Approximate Lineage for Probabilistic Databases 2008 VLDB 9.8358116e-05
1,873 A Web of Concepts 2009 PODS 9.5751398e-05
1,912 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.4946756e-05
1,986 Scalable Probabilistic Databases with Factor Graphs and MCMC 2010 VLDB 9.3519536e-05
2,255 Attacks on Privacy and deFinetti's Theorem 2009 SIGMOD 8.8595313e-05
2,460 Exploiting Shared Correlations in Probabilistic Databases 2008 VLDB 8.5505905e-05
2,514 From Complete to Incomplete Information and Back 2007 SIGMOD 8.4818577e-05
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2,670 The Impact of Negation on the Complexity of the Shapley Value in Conjunctive Queries 2020 PODS 8.2737143e-05
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2,697 Sketching Probabilistic Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 8.2451054e-05
2,936 Materialized Views in Probabilistic Databases: For Information Exchange and Query Optimization 2007 VLDB 7.9437689e-05
2,988 Estimating Statistical Aggregates on Probabilistic Data Streams 2007 PODS 7.8907087e-05
3,032 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.8323614e-05
3,049 Top-k Queries on Uncertain Data: On Score Distribution and Typical Answers 2009 SIGMOD 7.8151597e-05
3,050 Event Queries on Correlated Probabilistic Streams 2008 SIGMOD 7.8140428e-05
3,075 Matching Twigs in Probabilistic XML 2007 VLDB 7.7839831e-05
3,229 Computing Query Probability with Incidence Algebras 2010 PODS 7.6209731e-05
3,318 On the Complexity of Managing Probabilistic XML Data 2007 PODS 7.5247776e-05
3,483 Consensus Answers for Queries over Probabilistic Databases 2009 PODS 7.372823e-05
3,599 Sliding-Window Top-k Queries on Uncertain Streams 2008 VLDB 7.2710351e-05
3,619 OLAP over Imprecise Data with Domain Constraints 2007 VLDB 7.2508853e-05
3,698 Optimizing MPF Queries: Decision Support and Probabilistic Inference 2007 SIGMOD 7.1887638e-05
3,738 The Pursuit of a Good Possible World: Extracting Representative Instances of Uncertain Graphs 2014 SIGMOD 7.1602939e-05
3,918 From Shapley Value to Model Counting and Back 2024 PODS 7.0181891e-05
3,973 Uncertainty Management in Rule-Based Information Extraction Systems 2009 SIGMOD 6.9810029e-05
4,055 Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.9349546e-05
4,112 Efficient and Effective Similarity Search over Probabilistic Data based on Earth Mover's Distance 2010 VLDB 6.8944534e-05
4,136 Approximating Predicates and Expressive Queries on Probabilistic Databases 2008 PODS 6.8810237e-05
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5 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0010828372
37 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00048017193
77 XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents 2003 SIGMOD 0.00037048607
160 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.0002802209
466 Automated Ranking of Database Query Results 2003 CIDR 0.00018014467
557 The Theory of Probabilistic Databases 1987 VLDB 0.00016541752
644 The Complexity of Query Reliability 1998 PODS 0.00015367965
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