A Database System with Amnesia

Summary: Introduces "data rotting": a mostly‑knobless DBMS that semi‑autonomously forgets tuples (marks them inactive) to trade retention for bounded cost and interactive response. Empirical study of amnesia scenarios and implementation strategies to guide retrofitting engines with built‑in forgetting policies. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h84d05d72c214bb4d
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.9441754e-05
Overall Rank: 5,927 | 60.16%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Lefteris Sidirourgos (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kersten_cidr17,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '17},
        title = {{A Database System with Amnesia}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Kersten, Martin and Sidirourgos, Lefteris},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,829	DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models	2019	SIGMOD	9.5510333e-05
1,889	Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn	2019	CIDR	9.4273689e-05
6,080	From Auto-tuning One Size Fits All to Self-designed and Learned Data-intensive Systems	2019	SIGMOD	5.8924903e-05
10,597	Stochastic Submodular Data Forgetting	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,424	New Trends in Data Forgetting for Sustainable Data Management	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
728	Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture	2013	VLDB	0.00014414001
1,183	ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering	2000	VLDB	0.00011616705
1,607	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.0001008742
6,569	Big Data Space Fungus	2015	CIDR	5.7465184e-05
12,389	Capturing the Laws of (Data) Nature	2015	CIDR	4.9793485e-05

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