TRAC: Toward Recency and Consistency Reporting in a Database with Distributed Data Sources

Summary: TRAC reports recency and consistency for queries over distributed logs centralized in a DBMS. Instead of enforcing currency, it annotates results with recency and consistency metadata and provides techniques to compute them, demonstrated by a prototype with experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hff03197ade41f171
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 4.9769913e-05
Overall Rank: 13,006 | 12.59%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Jiansheng Huang (University of Wisconsin)
2. Jeffrey F. Naughton (University of Wisconsin)
3. Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{huang_vldb06,
        title = {{TRAC: Toward Recency and Consistency Reporting in a Database with Distributed Data Sources}},
        author = {Huang, Jiansheng and Naughton, Jeffrey F. and Livny, Miron},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {223--234},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,926	K-Relevance: A Spectrum of Relevance for Data Sources Impacting a Query	2007	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
54	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00040482761
590	Lineage Tracing for General Data Warehouse Transformations	2001	VLDB	0.00015884721
2,826	Relaxed Currency and Consistency: How to Say "Good Enough" in SQL	2004	SIGMOD	7.9641044e-05
6,930	Balancing Performance and Data Freshness in Web Database Servers	2003	VLDB	5.6388024e-05
6,931	Using Latency-Recency Profiles for Data Delivery on the Web	2002	VLDB	5.6388024e-05

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