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Efficiently Approximating Selectivity Functions using Low Overhead Regression Models

Summary: Introduces incremental data generation with approximate labels to train low-overhead selectivity regression models. Extends to select-project-join with ranges and IN clauses, yielding 95th percentile error 10–100x lower than baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12111
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.5895015e-05
Overall Rank
3,955 | 72.52%
DOI
10.14778/3407790.3407820

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4,431 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.1870601e-05
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7,291 Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities 2022 SIGMOD 4.7677422e-05
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7,854 dbET: Execution Time Distribution-based Plan Selection 2023 SIGMOD 4.6306186e-05
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8,219 PerfGuard: Deploying ML-for-Systems without Performance Regressions, Almost! 2021 VLDB 4.551524e-05
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9,350 LIMAO: A Framework for Lifelong Modular Learned Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.3494621e-05
9,662 Efficient Query Re-optimization with Judicious Subquery Selections 2023 SIGMOD 4.3056334e-05
9,690 Selectivity Estimation for Queries Containing Predicates over Set-Valued Attributes 2023 SIGMOD 4.2994116e-05
9,811 A Practical Theory of Generalization in Selectivity Learning 2025 VLDB 4.2742278e-05
9,877 PRICE: A Pretrained Model for Cross-Database Cardinality Estimation 2025 VLDB 4.2615675e-05
10,305 Vodka: Rethink Benchmarking Philosophy in HTAP Systems 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,627 Data-Agnostic Cardinality Learning from Imperfect Workloads 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040465394
18 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.00092569117
203 Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 0.00034868567
212 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033997204
373 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00025354685
512 STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram 2001 SIGMOD 0.00021385343
527 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020862475
606 DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries! 2020 VLDB 0.00019251186
627 Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding the Impact of Cardinality Estimation Errors 2009 VLDB 0.00018959896
729 Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance 2020 CIDR 0.00017448059
752 Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation 2020 VLDB 0.00017138049
786 Exploiting Statistics on Query Expressions for Optimization 2002 SIGMOD 0.00016624743
1,104 Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling 2017 CIDR 0.0001398479
1,194 Join Size Estimation Subject to Filter Conditions 2015 VLDB 0.00013411666
1,239 Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models 2019 VLDB 0.00013091459
1,257 Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013002384
1,727 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010731889
1,978 Improved Selectivity Estimation by Combining Knowledge from Sampling and Synopses 2018 VLDB 9.8764627e-05
2,080 Towards a Learning Optimizer for Shared Clouds 2019 VLDB 9.5954034e-05
2,167 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 9.3879598e-05
2,254 Two-Level Sampling for Join Size Estimation 2017 SIGMOD 9.1871115e-05
2,369 CS2: A New Database Synopsis for Query Estimation 2013 SIGMOD 8.9462051e-05
2,671 A Black-Box Approach to Query Cardinality Estimation 2007 CIDR 8.3385014e-05
2,844 Selectivity Estimation in Extensible Databases - A Neural Network Approach 1998 VLDB 8.0308994e-05
3,398 Statistics on Views 2003 VLDB 7.1381433e-05
3,402 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.134261e-05
5,128 Efficient Join Synopsis Maintenance for Data Warehouse 2020 SIGMOD 5.6728511e-05
5,676 A Pay-As-You-Go Framework for Query Execution Feedback 2008 VLDB 5.3768269e-05
5,907 Exploiting Ordered Dictionaries to Efficiently Construct Histograms with Q-Error Guarantees in SAP HANA 2014 SIGMOD 5.2741214e-05
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