Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment

Summary: Sesame brings what-if analysis into OLAP via formal scenario semantics for hypothetical warehouse-view and fact updates, supporting spreadsheet-style algebra. Lazy substitution plus operator-aware rewriting, using minterms and packed forests, yields major optimization gains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h9a1b2a8a129656f2
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 9.4653035e-05
Overall Rank: 1,864 | 87.51%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Andrey Balmin (University of California San Diego)
2. Thanos Papadimitriou (University of California Los Angeles)
3. Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@article{balmin_vldb00,
        title = {{Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment}},
        author = {Balmin, Andrey and Papadimitriou, Thanos and Papakonstantinou, Yannis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '00},
        pages = {220},
        year = {2000}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,725	Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	9.7733128e-05
1,953	Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis	2013	CIDR	9.297314e-05
2,328	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	8.6206869e-05
2,361	Bias in OLAP Queries: Detection, Explanation, and Removal (Or Think Twice About Your AVG-Query)	2018	SIGMOD	8.5605216e-05
2,962	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.7949147e-05
3,859	QC-Trees: An Efficient Summary Structure for Semantic OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	6.9540456e-05
4,577	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	6.5111757e-05
4,943	Efficient Answering of Historical What-if Queries	2022	SIGMOD	6.3304729e-05
6,718	Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality	2022	VLDB	5.6843134e-05
7,252	Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction	2019	SIGMOD	5.5583413e-05
11,189	Ultraverse: An Efficient What-if Analysis Framework for Software Applications Interacting with Database Systems	2025	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.00070860346
39	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00046445099
62	Maintaining Views Incrementally	1993	SIGMOD	0.00038944207
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037421163
275	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.000224395
882	Rewriting Aggregate Queries Using Views	1999	PODS	0.00013239752
904	Maintenance of Data Cubes and Summary Tables in a Warehouse	1997	SIGMOD	0.00013138723
3,061	A Framework for Implementing Hypothetical Queries	1997	SIGMOD	7.6812089e-05
3,454	Cubetree: Organization of and Bulk Incremental Updates on the Data Cube	1997	SIGMOD	7.270801e-05
5,853	Shrinking the Warehouse Update Window	1999	SIGMOD	5.9520872e-05

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