Exploiting Lineage for Confidence Computation in Uncertain and Probabilistic 
Databases

Das Sarma, Anish; Theobald, Martin; Widom, Jennifer

doi:10.1109/ICDE.2008.4497511

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Exploiting Lineage for Confidence Computation in Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases

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Theobald, Martin
Databases and Information Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Das Sarma, A., Theobald, M., & Widom, J. (2008). Exploiting Lineage for Confidence Computation in Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'08) (pp. 1023-1032). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.

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We study the problem of computing query results with confidence values in ULDBs: relational databases with uncertainty and lineage. ULDBs, which subsume probabilistic databases, offer an alternative decoupled method of computing confidence values: Instead of computing confidences during query processing, compute them afterwards based on lineage. This approach enables a wider space of query plans, and it permits selective computations when not all confidence values are needed. This paper develops a suite of algorithms and optimizations for a broad class of relational queries on ULDBs. We provide confidence computation algorithms for single data items, as well as efficient batch algorithms to compute confidences for an entire relation or database. All algorithms incorporate memoization to avoid redundant computations, and they have been implemented in the Trio prototype ULDB database system. Performance characteristics and scalability of the algorithms are demonstrated through experimental results over a large synthetic dataset.