Generating Thousand Benchmark Queries in Seconds

Summary: QGEN generates arbitrary, undisclosed DSS query workloads matching statistical profiles. Linking query syntax to abstract data distributions enables comparable benchmarks that adapt to evolving access patterns while providing broad syntactic and semantic coverage. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hc904fcbb8ef72061
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.1035277e-05
Overall Rank: 2,712 | 81.77%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50091-7

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Meikel Poess (Oracle)
2. John M. Stephens, Jr. (Gradient Systems)

BibTeX Citation

@article{poess_vldb04,
        title = {{Generating Thousand Benchmark Queries in Seconds}},
        author = {Poess, Meikel and John M. Stephens, Jr.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {1045--1052},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50091-7},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50091-7},
        year = {2004}
}

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Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
479	The Making of TPC-DS	2006	VLDB	0.00017622471
747	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014283935
1,890	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.4193315e-05
1,928	Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS	2023	SIGMOD	9.3567082e-05
3,102	Oracle Database Replay	2008	SIGMOD	7.6485305e-05
3,207	Why You Should Run TPC-DS:A Workload Analysis	2007	VLDB	7.5387953e-05
3,651	Keep It Simple: Testing Databases via Differential Query Plans	2024	SIGMOD	7.1327136e-05
5,847	Consistent Synchronization Schemes for Workload Replay	2011	VLDB	5.9727033e-05
8,751	Goals and Benchmarks for Autonomic Configuration Recommenders	2005	SIGMOD	5.284914e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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