Functional Dependency Discovery: An Experimental Evaluation of Seven Algorithms
Summary: Comprehensive experimental comparison of seven prominent functional-dependency discovery algorithms, including a unifying taxonomy and clarified implementations. Broad synthetic/real-data evaluation reveals strong data-dependent tradeoffs, poor overall scalability, and guidance for algorithm selection. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Thorsten Papenbrock (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 2. Jens Ehrlich (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 3. Jannik Marten (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 4. Tommy Neubert (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 5. Jan-Peer Rudolph (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 6. Martin Schönberg (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 7. Jakob Zwiener (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 8. Felix Naumann (Hasso Plattner Institute)
BibTeX Citation
@article{papenbrock_vldb15,
title = {{Functional Dependency Discovery: An Experimental Evaluation of Seven Algorithms}},
author = {Papenbrock, Thorsten and Ehrlich, Jens and Marten, Jannik and Neubert, Tommy and Rudolph, Jan-Peer and Schönberg, Martin and Zwiener, Jakob and Naumann, Felix},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {10},
pages = {1082--1093},
doi = {10.14778/2794367.2794377},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2794367.2794377},
year = {2015}
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 160 | CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies | 2004 | SIGMOD | 0.00027837289 |
| 1,223 | Partition Semantics for Relations | 1985 | PODS | 0.00011452588 |
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