Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions

Summary: Characterizes statistical databases through diverse, large-scale applications, emphasizing their complexity and distinctive management challenges. Surveys a broad range of problems—including privacy and query concerns—and reports partial solutions and ongoing work. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h2e2167c6692a238a
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 0.00022797298
Overall Rank: 263 | 98.24%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Arie Shoshani (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California)
2. H. K. T. Wong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California)

BibTeX Citation

@article{shoshani_vldb82,
        title = {{Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions}},
        author = {Shoshani, Arie and Wong, H. K. T.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '82},
        pages = {208--222},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
69	Privacy-Preserving Data Mining	2000	SIGMOD	0.00037815735
123	Revealing Information while Preserving Privacy	2003	PODS	0.00030654879
214	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00024576033
414	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00018629709
1,343	A Privacy-Preserving Index for Range Queries	2004	VLDB	0.00010957725
1,394	Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases	1982	VLDB	0.00010777211
1,420	Characteristics of Scientific Databases	1984	VLDB	0.00010703415
1,433	Top-down statistical estimation on a database	1983	SIGMOD	0.00010661879
1,880	Information Sharing Across Private Databases	2003	SIGMOD	9.427621e-05
2,450	Performance Evaluation of the Statistical Aggregation by Categorization in the SM3 System	1984	SIGMOD	8.4309384e-05
2,946	OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences	1997	PODS	7.81162e-05
3,803	A Language and a Physical Organization Technique for Summary Tables	1985	SIGMOD	6.9913527e-05
4,030	A New Compression Method with Fast Searching on Large Databases	1987	VLDB	6.8284798e-05
4,094	Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMSs	1983	SIGMOD	6.7952395e-05
4,256	A Foundation for Multi-Dimensional Databases	1997	VLDB	6.6847353e-05
4,820	Aggregation Algorithms for Very Large Compressed Data Warehouses	1999	VLDB	6.3880163e-05
5,104	General purpose database summarization	2005	VLDB	6.2620042e-05
7,549	Algebraic Optimization of Computations over Scientific Databases	1993	VLDB	5.4809567e-05
8,066	Privacy-Enhancing k-Anonymization of Customer Data	2005	PODS	5.3811151e-05
13,479	Aggregate Evaluability in Statistical Databases	1989	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,517	A Database Design for Musical Information	1987	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,540	Transposition Algorithms on Very Large Compressed Databases	1986	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,013	A Heuristic Approach to Attribute Partitioning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00012475737
1,097	A study on the protection of statistical data bases	1977	SIGMOD	0.00012017466
1,394	Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases	1982	VLDB	0.00010777211
1,442	A Framework for Research in Database Management for Statistical Analysis: A Primer on Statistical Database Management Problems for Computer Scientists	1982	SIGMOD	0.00010622324
1,457	GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration	1982	VLDB	0.00010570848
2,157	Modelling Summary Data	1981	SIGMOD	8.9289981e-05
4,827	Microprocessor Assisted Tuple Access, Decompression and Assembly for Statistical Database Systems	1982	VLDB	6.3853654e-05

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