Publikation
ReStore - Neural Data Completion for Relational Databases
Benjamin Hilprecht; Carsten Binnig
In: Guoliang Li; Zhanhuai Li; Stratos Idreos; Divesh Srivastava (Hrsg.). SIGMOD '21: International Conference on Management of Data, Virtual Event, China, June 20-25, 2021. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Pages 710-722, ACM, 2021.
Zusammenfassung
Classical approaches for OLAP assume that the data of all tables is complete. However, in case of incomplete tables with missing tuples, classical approaches fail since the result of a SQL aggregate query might significantly differ from the results computed on the full dataset. Today, the only way to deal with missing data is to manually complete the dataset which causes not only high efforts but also requires good statistical skills to determine when a dataset is actually complete. In this paper, we propose an automated approach for relational data completion called ReStore using a new class of (neural) schema-structured completion models that are able to synthesize data which resembles the missing tuples. As we show in our evaluation, this efficiently helps to reduce the relative error of aggregate queries by up to 390% on real-world data compared to using the incomplete data directly for query answering.