The twelfth issue of the seventh volume of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) is now available electronically at the VLDB web site:

   http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7.html

This issue consists of the following 26 papers that have been accepted for the Research (including Experiments and Analysis, Innovative Systems, Vision) Track of VLDB 2014 in Hangzhou, China in September 2014:

 1. Computing Personalized PageRank Quickly by Exploiting Graph Structures
    Takanori Maehara, Takuya Akiba, Yoichi Iwata, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1023-maehara.pdf

 2. Accordion: Elastic Scalability for Database Systems Supporting Distributed Transactions
    Marco Serafini, Essam Mansour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Taha Rafiq, Umar Farooq Minhas 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1035-serafini.pdf

 3. An Experimental Comparison of Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems
    Minyang Han, Khuzaima Daudjee, Khaled Ammar, M. Tamer Ozsu, Xingfang Wang, Tianqi Jin
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1047-han.pdf

 4. ClusterJoin: A Similarity Joins Framework using Map-Reduce
    Akash Das Sarma, Yeye He, Surajit Chaudhuri
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1059-dassarma.pdf

 5. Crowdsourcing Algorithms for Entity Resolution
    Norases Vesdapunt, Kedar Bellare, Nilesh Dalvi     
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1071-vesdapunt.pdf

 6. Distributed Graph Simulation: Impossibility and Possibility
    Wenfei Fan, Xin Wang, Yinghui Wu, Dong Deng 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1083-fan.pdf

 7. Code Generation for Efficient Query Processing in Managed Runtimes
    Fabian Nagel, Gavin Bierman, Stratis D. Viglas
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1095-nagel.pdf

 8. Aggregate Estimation Over Dynamic Hidden Web Databases
    Weimo Liu, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Nan Zhang, Gautam Das
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1107-liu.pdf

 9. Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data
    Manos Karpathiotakis, Miguel Branco, Ioannis Alagiannis, Anastasia Ailamaki
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1119-karpathiotakis.pdf

 10. Storing and Querying Tree-Structured Records in Dremel
    Foto N. Afrati, Dan Delorey, Mosha Pasumansky, Jeffrey D. Ullman
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1131-afrati.pdf

 11. Similarity Search for Scientific Workflows
    Johannes Starlinger, Bryan Brancotte, Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Ulf Leser
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1143-starlinger.pdf

 12. Differentially Private Event Sequences over Infinite Streams
    Georgios Kellaris, Stavros Papadopoulos, Xiaokui Xiao, Dimitris Papadias 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1155-kellaris.pdf

 13. Matching Titles with Cross Title Web-Search Enrichment and Community Detection
    Nikhil Londhe, Vishrawas Gopalakrishnan, Aidong Zhang, Hung Q. Ngo, Rohini Srihari
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1167-londhe.pdf

 14. On Concise Set of Relative Candidate Keys
    Shaoxu Song, Lei Chen, Hong Cheng
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1179-song.pdf

 15. Reachability Querying: An Independent Permutation Labeling Approach
    Hao Wei, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Can Lu, Ruoming Jin     
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1191-wei.pdf

 16. Hop Doubling Label Indexing for Point-to-Point Distance Querying on Scale-Free Networks
    Minhao Jiang, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Yanyan Xu 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1203-jiang.pdf

 17. Semantic Culturomics (vision paper)
    Fabian M. Suchanek, Nicoleta Preda
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1215-suchanek.pdf

 18. Benchmarking Scalability and Elasticity of Distributed Database Systems
    Jorn Kuhlenkamp, Markus Klems, Oliver Ross
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1219-klems.pdf

 19. Bounded Conjunctive Queries
    Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, Tianyu Wo, Wenyuan Yu
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1231-cao.pdf

 20. Optimizing Join Enumeration in Transformation-based Query Optimizers
    Anil Shanbhag, S. Sudarshan
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1243-shanbhag.pdf

 21. A System for Management and Analysis of Preference Data
    Marie Jacob, Benny Kimelfeld, Julia Stoyanovich
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1255-jacob.pdf

 22. Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing
    Ashish Gupta, Fan Yang, Jason Govig, Adam Kirsch, Kelvin Chan, Kevin Lai, Shuo Wu, Sandeep Govind Dhoot, Abhilash Rajesh Kumar, Ankur Agiwal, Sanjay Bhansali, Mingsheng Hong, Jamie Cameron, Masood Siddiqi, David Jones, Jeff Shute, Andrey Gubarev, Shivakumar Venkataraman, Divyakant Agrawal 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1259-gupta.pdf

 23. An Effective Encoding Scheme for Spatial RDF Data
    John Liagouris, Nikos Mamoulis, Panagiotis Bouros, Manolis Terrovitis
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1271-liagouris.pdf

 24. DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics
    Ce Zhang, Christopher Re
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1283-zhang.pdf

 25. SQL-on-Hadoop: Full Circle Back to Shared-Nothing Database Architectures
    Avrilia Floratou, Umar Farooq Minhas, Fatma Ozcan     
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1295-floratou.pdf

 26. Optimal Security-Aware Query Processing
    Marco Guarnieri, David Basin 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1307-guarnieri.pdf

In addition, the front matter contains a letter from the VLDB 2014 Program Co-Chair, H. V. Jagadish. 
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/FrontMatterVol7No12.pdf

Li Xiong, Emory University
Cong Yu, Google Research New York
VLDB 2014 Proceedings Chairs