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MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data

Summary: MCDB: Monte Carlo framework for uncertain data. VG functions parameterized by SQL results store only parameters, not probabilities, and estimate distributions; supports joint distributions, queries, and functionals, via bundle-based processing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h8da6e9d5ff19cdac
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00023188414
Overall Rank
245 | 98.36%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376686

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jampani_sigmod08,
        title = {{MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data}},
        author = {Jampani, Ravi and Perez, Luis Leopoldo and Xu, Fei and Jermaine, Christopher and Wu, Mingxi and Haas, Peter J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376686},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376686},
        year = {2008}
}

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569 Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive 2015 VLDB 0.00016212139
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1,067 Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS 2011 VLDB 0.00012170631
1,069 k-Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Graphs 2010 VLDB 0.00012164865
1,354 Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints 2010 VLDB 0.00010912271
1,619 Sensitivity Analysis and Explanations for Robust Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases 2011 SIGMOD 0.00010044303
1,844 MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data 2017 SIGMOD 9.5112726e-05
2,027 Scalable Probabilistic Databases with Factor Graphs and MCMC 2010 VLDB 9.1511498e-05
2,220 The Case for Predictive Database Systems: Opportunities and Challenges 2011 CIDR 8.8121054e-05
2,869 Secondary-Storage Confidence Computation for Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities 2009 SIGMOD 7.9042921e-05
3,116 Top-k Queries on Uncertain Data: On Score Distribution and Typical Answers 2009 SIGMOD 7.6157273e-05
4,046 Towards High-Throughput Gibbs Sampling at Scale: A Study across Storage Managers 2013 SIGMOD 6.8182709e-05
4,083 Uncertainty Management in Rule-Based Information Extraction Systems 2009 SIGMOD 6.8002077e-05
4,162 Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction 2011 SIGMOD 6.7567031e-05
4,196 Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation 2012 VLDB 6.7317801e-05
4,403 Extracting Databases from Dark Data with DeepDive 2016 SIGMOD 6.6033854e-05
4,413 Read-Once Functions and Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases 2010 VLDB 6.5979584e-05
4,577 HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach 2022 SIGMOD 6.5111757e-05
4,878 Probabilistic String Similarity Joins 2010 SIGMOD 6.3569172e-05
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5,351 Approximate Lifted Inference with Probabilistic Databases 2015 VLDB 6.1523865e-05
5,430 Data is Dead… Without What-If Models 2011 VLDB 6.1179923e-05
5,796 Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Probabilistic Databases 2010 SIGMOD 5.9752115e-05
5,813 MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database 2010 VLDB 5.9684976e-05
5,822 Incrementally Maintaining Classification using an RDBMS 2011 VLDB 5.9655757e-05
5,953 Leveraging Spatio-Temporal Redundancy for RFID Data Cleansing 2010 SIGMOD 5.9181742e-05
5,958 Bridging Two Worlds with RICE: Integrating R into the SAP In-Memory Computing Engine 2011 VLDB 5.9165265e-05
5,997 Querying Uncertain Data with Aggregate Constraints 2011 SIGMOD 5.9036298e-05
6,103 Lenses: An On-Demand Approach to ETL 2015 VLDB 5.8688925e-05
6,190 PODS: A New Model and Processing Algorithms for Uncertain Data Streams 2010 SIGMOD 5.838872e-05
6,317 Probabilistic Databases with an Infinite Open-World Assumption 2019 PODS 5.7965026e-05
6,762 Efficiently Answering Durability Prediction Queries 2021 SIGMOD 5.6704515e-05
6,789 Tiresias: A Demonstration of How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 5.6652658e-05
6,867 Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing 2009 CIDR 5.644892e-05
7,073 Evaluation of Probabilistic Threshold Queries in MCDB 2010 SIGMOD 5.5920064e-05
8,019 Set Similarity Join on Probabilistic Data 2010 VLDB 5.3900267e-05
8,205 Probabilistic Histograms for Probabilistic Data 2009 VLDB 5.3616572e-05
8,371 Jigsaw: Efficient Optimization Over Uncertain Enterprise Data 2011 SIGMOD 5.3287173e-05
8,425 FaDE: More Than a Million What-ifs Per Second 2025 VLDB 5.3187951e-05
8,451 Efficient Uncertainty Tracking for Complex Queries with Attribute-level Bounds 2021 SIGMOD 5.3148581e-05
8,787 Beta Probabilistic Databases: A Scalable Approach to Belief Updating and Parameter Learning 2017 SIGMOD 5.263678e-05
8,915 FastPDB: Towards Bag-Probabilistic Queries at Interactive Speeds 2025 SIGMOD 5.2361195e-05
9,076 Stochastic Package Queries in Probabilistic Databases 2020 SIGMOD 5.2109641e-05
9,126 Efficient Query Answering in Probabilistic RDF Graphs 2011 SIGMOD 5.208561e-05
9,320 E = MC^3: Managing Uncertain Enterprise Data in a Cluster-Computing Environment 2009 SIGMOD 5.1825641e-05
9,409 Efficient Approximation of Certain and Possible Answers for Ranking and Window Queries over Uncertain Data 2023 VLDB 5.1672232e-05
9,644 Ranking Distributed Probabilistic Data 2009 SIGMOD 5.1334081e-05
9,648 Probabilistic Nearest Neighbor Queries on Uncertain Moving Object Trajectories 2014 VLDB 5.132694e-05
10,158 A*-tree: A Structure for Storage and Modeling of Uncertain Multidimensional Arrays 2010 VLDB 5.0597449e-05
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340 Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.00020548826
418 MauveDB: Supporting Model-based User Views in Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.00018567032
693 Creating Probabilistic Databases from Information Extraction Models 2006 VLDB 0.00014693239
1,095 Scalable Approximate Query Processing With The DBO Engine 2007 SIGMOD 0.00012036913
1,126 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00011888563
1,666 U-DBMS: A Database System for Managing Constantly-Evolving Data 2005 VLDB 9.9309987e-05
2,996 Materialized Views in Probabilistic Databases: For Information Exchange and Query Optimization 2007 VLDB 7.7548593e-05
3,143 Matching Twigs in Probabilistic XML 2007 VLDB 7.5857903e-05
3,700 OLAP over Imprecise Data with Domain Constraints 2007 VLDB 7.0668135e-05
4,277 Maximally Joining Probabilistic Data 2007 PODS 6.67394e-05
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