Speaker: Pierre Senellart, ENS Ulm, head of the Valda joint CNRS, ENS, Inria project-team
Tuesday, 4 July 2023, 10:30, 1Z14
We describe ProvSQL, software currently being developed in our team that adds support for provenance management to a regular database management system, PostgreSQL. We first explain what provenance is, applications thereof, and how provenance of database queries can be defined and captured. We insist on one particular application of provenance, probabilistic query evaluation. We then explain research and engineering challenges in implementing techniques from the scientific literature on provenance management and probabilistic databases within a major database management system.