Section: New Software and Platforms

ProvSQL

Keywords: Databases - Provenance - Probability

Functional Description: The goal of the ProvSQL project is to add support for (m-)semiring provenance and uncertainty management to PostgreSQL databases, in the form of a PostgreSQL extension/module/plugin.

News Of The Year: ProvSQL becomes usable for a large range of queries. Support for semirings and m-semirings is present, support for probability computation has been added through a variety of techniques, including knowledge compilation, support for where-provenance is currently being implemented.

• Participants: Pierre Senellart and Yann Ramusat

• Contact: Pierre Senellart

• Publication: Provenance and Probabilities in Relational Databases: From Theory to Practice

• URL: https://github.com/PierreSenellart/provsql