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: h388ffd9e613ccbbf
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.0001286031
Overall Rank: 956 | 93.58%
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
748	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014277246
1,604	Simple and Realistic Data Generation	2006	VLDB	0.00010096875
1,893	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.4149369e-05
1,930	Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS	2023	SIGMOD	9.3522789e-05
2,414	Data Generation using Declarative Constraints	2011	SIGMOD	8.5054535e-05
2,950	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.817636e-05
3,431	Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking	2011	VLDB	7.3018233e-05
4,768	Generating XML Structure Using Examples and Constraints	2008	VLDB	6.4239472e-05
5,058	Detecting Metadata-Related Logic Bugs in Database Systems via Raw Database Construction	2024	VLDB	6.2915045e-05
6,102	Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing	2025	SIGMOD	5.8840867e-05
6,120	Just can't get enough - Synthesizing Big Data	2015	SIGMOD	5.878273e-05
6,148	Identifying the Extent of Completeness of Query Answers over Partially Complete Databases	2015	SIGMOD	5.8684233e-05
6,898	Synthesizing Linked Data Under Cardinality and Integrity Constraints	2021	SIGMOD	5.6506085e-05
8,034	Dscaler: Synthetically Scaling A Given Relational Database	2016	VLDB	5.401567e-05
8,199	Testing Database Applications	2006	SIGMOD	5.378488e-05
8,206	HYDRA: A Dynamic Big Data Regenerator	2018	VLDB	5.3765919e-05
9,206	DataSynth: Generating Synthetic Data using Declarative Constraints	2011	VLDB	5.2072427e-05
9,231	SRS: Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Implementation in DBMSs via Set Relation Synthesis	2026	SIGMOD	5.2032182e-05
9,412	Detecting Schema-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Equivalent Database Construction	2025	VLDB	5.1808981e-05
9,700	The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries	2025	VLDB	5.1372261e-05
10,065	Simple Testing Can Expose Most Critical Transaction Bugs: Understanding and Detecting Write-Specific Serializability Violations in Database Systems	2025	VLDB	5.0851868e-05
10,180	Projection-Compliant Database Generation	2022	VLDB	5.06553e-05
12,783	Visualizing the robustness of query execution	2009	CIDR	4.9769913e-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
46	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00044767144
103	Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption	1997	VLDB	0.00033884854
106	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033518428
371	STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram	2001	SIGMOD	0.00019822444
454	Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data	1999	SIGMOD	0.00017955913
743	Dynamic Multidimensional Histograms	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014309723
1,079	ToXgene: A template-based data generator for XML	2002	SIGMOD	0.00012140768
3,361	Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions	2004	SIGMOD	7.3726415e-05
5,434	Materialized View and Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2000	2001	SIGMOD	6.1303275e-05

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