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