A Revival of Integrity Constraints for Data Cleaning

Summary: Revival of integrity constraints (data dependencies) as core tools for data cleaning. Tutorial overview of recent advances in constraint-based data cleaning, highlighting methods, challenges, and future directions for data quality in database systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he73098c7a799be85
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 8.5187113e-05
Overall Rank: 2,403 | 83.85%
DOI: 10.14778/1454159.1454220

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Wenfei Fan (AT&T; Harbin Institute of Technologies; University of Edinburgh)
2. Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh)
3. Xibei Jia (University of Edinburgh)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fan_vldb08,
        title = {{A Revival of Integrity Constraints for Data Cleaning}},
        author = {Fan, Wenfei and Geerts, Floris and Jia, Xibei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1522--1533},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454220},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454220},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
547	ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning	2010	SIGMOD	0.00016578131
2,686	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	8.1308928e-05
3,422	UGuide – User-Guided Discovery of FD-Detectable Errors	2017	SIGMOD	7.3138834e-05
4,342	Possible and Certain SQL Keys	2015	VLDB	6.6510065e-05
6,046	Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it	2020	CIDR	5.9052121e-05
6,817	Error Diagnosis and Data Profiling with Data X-Ray	2015	VLDB	5.6727207e-05
7,912	CoCo: Interactive Exploration of Conformance Constraints for Data Understanding and Data Cleaning	2021	SIGMOD	5.4279818e-05
12,333	QFix: Demonstrating Error Diagnosis in Query Histories	2016	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
33	Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases	1999	PODS	0.00049349003
526	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.00016886621
1,291	Extending Dependencies with Conditions	2007	VLDB	0.00011156154
6,135	Semandaq: A Data Quality System Based on Conditional Functional Dependencies	2008	VLDB	5.8761214e-05

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