Beta Probabilistic Databases: A Scalable Approach to Belief Updating and Parameter Learning

Summary: Beta Probabilistic Databases (B-PDBs) model each tuple probability as a Beta latent variable, enabling principled belief updates from noisy, indirect evidence. Remains TI-PDB-compatible, enabling scalable Bayesian updates and soft-EM learning in-database. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0f38f5f2a1ae4e27
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.283642e-05
Overall Rank: 8,760 | 41.11%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3064026

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Niccolò Meneghetti (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
2. Oliver Kennedy (State University of New York at Buffalo)
3. Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Carnegie Mellon University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{meneghetti_sigmod17,
        title = {{Beta Probabilistic Databases: A Scalable Approach to Belief Updating and Parameter Learning}},
        author = {Meneghetti, Niccolò and Kennedy, Oliver and Gatterbauer, Wolfgang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3064026},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3064026},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,661	CYADB: A Database that Covers Your Ask	2018	VLDB	5.4772833e-05
11,532	StarfishDB: a Query Execution Engine for Relational Probabilistic Programming	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059752575
51	Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00042936299
84	ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00035963861
245	MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data	2008	SIGMOD	0.00023258672
337	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00020621631
696	MYSTIQ: A system for finding more answers by using probabilities	2005	SIGMOD	0.00014697176
888	Pay-as-you-go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013255989
914	Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial	1995	PODS	0.00013104061
1,009	Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL	2013	SIGMOD	0.00012539827
1,549	Conditioning Probabilistic Databases	2008	VLDB	0.00010288725
2,082	Orion 2.0: Native Support for Uncertain Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.0732581e-05
2,805	MayBMS: A Probabilistic Database Management System	2009	SIGMOD	7.9836802e-05
5,340	Approximate Lifted Inference with Probabilistic Databases	2015	VLDB	6.1731278e-05
6,089	Lenses: An On-Demand Approach to ETL	2015	VLDB	5.8908642e-05
7,691	SPROUT2: A Squared Query Engine for Uncertain Web Data	2011	SIGMOD	5.4772676e-05
9,762	Hephaestus: Data Reuse for Accelerating Scientific Discovery	2015	CIDR	5.1347497e-05
9,763	Coordination through Querying in the Youtopia System	2011	SIGMOD	5.1347497e-05

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