Simple and Realistic Data Generation

Summary: A DBMS-independent, extensible generator uses a graph model to efficiently synthesize realistic relational data for OLTP, OLAP, and streaming workloads. It scales to complex schemas and captures precise inter- and intra-table correlations. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9610
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 0.00010309264
Overall Rank: 1,578 | 89.18%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kenneth Houkjær (Aalborg University)
2. Kristian Torp (Aalborg University)
3. Rico Wind (Aalborg University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{houkjr_vldb06,
        title = {{Simple and Realistic Data Generation}},
        author = {Houkjær, Kenneth and Torp, Kristian and Wind, Rico},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {1243},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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
2,369	Data Generation using Declarative Constraints	2011	SIGMOD	8.682429e-05
2,914	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.9667467e-05
3,016	Plausible Deniability for Privacy-Preserving Data Synthesis	2017	VLDB	7.8484858e-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
6,755	Synthesizing Linked Data Under Cardinality and Integrity Constraints	2021	SIGMOD	5.7830386e-05
7,248	Myriad: Scalable and Expressive Data Generation	2012	VLDB	5.6635058e-05
7,866	Dscaler: Synthetically Scaling A Given Relational Database	2016	VLDB	5.5281143e-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

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
105	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033877899
938	Flexible Database Generators	2005	VLDB	0.00013089351

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