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: 0.00012834376
Overall Rank: 958 | 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
751	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014245413
1,607	Simple and Realistic Data Generation	2006	VLDB	0.00010078023
1,854	Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS	2023	SIGMOD	9.4858897e-05
1,901	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.3902763e-05
2,422	Data Generation using Declarative Constraints	2011	SIGMOD	8.4785012e-05
2,962	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.7949147e-05
3,442	Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking	2011	VLDB	7.2783187e-05
4,748	Detecting Metadata-Related Logic Bugs in Database Systems via Raw Database Construction	2024	VLDB	6.4257176e-05
4,787	Generating XML Structure Using Examples and Constraints	2008	VLDB	6.4027507e-05
6,118	Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing	2025	SIGMOD	5.8646302e-05
6,134	Just can't get enough - Synthesizing Big Data	2015	SIGMOD	5.8588429e-05
6,166	Identifying the Extent of Completeness of Query Answers over Partially Complete Databases	2015	SIGMOD	5.8492355e-05
6,916	Synthesizing Linked Data Under Cardinality and Integrity Constraints	2021	SIGMOD	5.6320169e-05
8,051	Dscaler: Synthetically Scaling A Given Relational Database	2016	VLDB	5.383739e-05
8,214	Testing Database Applications	2006	SIGMOD	5.3607062e-05
8,221	HYDRA: A Dynamic Big Data Regenerator	2018	VLDB	5.3588446e-05
8,426	Detecting Schema-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Equivalent Database Construction	2025	VLDB	5.3187835e-05
9,229	DataSynth: Generating Synthetic Data using Declarative Constraints	2011	VLDB	5.1900257e-05
9,255	SRS: Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Implementation in DBMSs via Set Relation Synthesis	2026	SIGMOD	5.1860131e-05
9,729	The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries	2025	VLDB	5.1202393e-05
10,098	Simple Testing Can Expose Most Critical Transaction Bugs: Understanding and Detecting Write-Specific Serializability Violations in Database Systems	2025	VLDB	5.068372e-05
10,214	Projection-Compliant Database Generation	2022	VLDB	5.0488113e-05
12,826	Visualizing the robustness of query execution	2009	CIDR	4.9605343e-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	0.00044656322
103	Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption	1997	VLDB	0.00033847446
106	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033563032
372	STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram	2001	SIGMOD	0.00019768921
457	Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data	1999	SIGMOD	0.00017915659
745	Dynamic Multidimensional Histograms	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014267268
1,081	ToXgene: A template-based data generator for XML	2002	SIGMOD	0.00012103682
3,371	Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions	2004	SIGMOD	7.3493132e-05
5,450	Materialized View and Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2000	2001	SIGMOD	6.1103095e-05

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