Flexible Database Generators

Summary: Introduces a flexible, scalable data-generation framework to model diverse data distributions for database workloads. Maps synthetic distributions to the framework and reports results, addressing reproducibility and modifiability of data and workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9436
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.00013089351
Overall Rank: 938 | 93.57%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft)
2. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bruno_vldb05,
        title = {{Flexible Database Generators}},
        author = {Bruno, Nicolas and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        pages = {1097--1108},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 23 of 23 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
734	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014525584
1,578	Simple and Realistic Data Generation	2006	VLDB	0.00010309264
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
2,369	Data Generation using Declarative Constraints	2011	SIGMOD	8.682429e-05
2,914	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.9667467e-05
3,404	Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking	2011	VLDB	7.4411075e-05
4,669	Generating XML Structure Using Examples and Constraints	2008	VLDB	6.5736436e-05
5,429	Detecting Metadata-Related Logic Bugs in Database Systems via Raw Database Construction	2024	VLDB	6.222006e-05
5,992	Just can't get enough - Synthesizing Big Data	2015	SIGMOD	6.0160344e-05
6,021	Identifying the Extent of Completeness of Query Answers over Partially Complete Databases	2015	SIGMOD	6.0050351e-05
6,755	Synthesizing Linked Data Under Cardinality and Integrity Constraints	2021	SIGMOD	5.7830386e-05
7,427	Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing	2025	SIGMOD	5.620674e-05
7,866	Dscaler: Synthetically Scaling A Given Relational Database	2016	VLDB	5.5281143e-05
8,030	Testing Database Applications	2006	SIGMOD	5.5044887e-05
8,037	HYDRA: A Dynamic Big Data Regenerator	2018	VLDB	5.5025567e-05
9,028	DataSynth: Generating Synthetic Data using Declarative Constraints	2011	VLDB	5.3292816e-05
9,227	Detecting Schema-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Equivalent Database Construction	2025	VLDB	5.3023217e-05
9,869	Simple Testing Can Expose Most Critical Transaction Bugs: Understanding and Detecting Write-Specific Serializability Violations in Database Systems	2025	VLDB	5.2043672e-05
9,917	The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries	2025	VLDB	5.1955087e-05
9,985	Projection-Compliant Database Generation	2022	VLDB	5.1842045e-05
10,402	SRS: Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Implementation in DBMSs via Set Relation Synthesis	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,486	Visualizing the robustness of query execution	2009	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
45	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00045531113
101	Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption	1997	VLDB	0.00034376651
105	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033877899
365	STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram	2001	SIGMOD	0.00020041735
448	Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data	1999	SIGMOD	0.00018292618
723	Dynamic Multidimensional Histograms	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014620977
1,050	ToXgene: A template-based data generator for XML	2002	SIGMOD	0.00012414537
3,309	Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions	2004	SIGMOD	7.5368417e-05
5,307	Materialized View and Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2000	2001	SIGMOD	6.2728074e-05

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