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Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling

Summary: Adaptive random sampling is extended to practical selectivity estimation for selects and joins, with tighter bounds on sample size for fixed accuracy. Introduces sanity bounds for highly skewed data or very small results and shows encouraging performance when integrated with a commercial relational DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2466
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00051431888
Overall Rank
92 | 99.37%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
63 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00063595699
141 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00041819767
212 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033997204
250 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030640525
291 Error-Constrained COUNT Query Evaluation in Relational Databases 1991 SIGMOD 0.00028778973
326 Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees 1998 VLDB 0.0002737538
328 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00027301497
360 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00025768448
369 Sequential Sampling Procedures For Query Size Estimation 1992 SIGMOD 0.00025502381
373 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00025354685
416 Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets 2000 VLDB 0.00023773968
430 Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial 2001 VLDB 0.00023406426
527 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020862475
531 Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? 1998 SIGMOD 0.0002079072
550 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00020346247
553 Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00020272747
680 Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00018193263
803 On the Relative Cost of Sampling for Join Selectivity Estimation 1994 PODS 0.00016438972
804 An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator 2020 VLDB 0.0001643674
941 Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015147831
1,019 An Instant and Accurate Size Estimation Method for Joins and Selection in a Retrieval-Intensive Environment 1993 SIGMOD 0.00014623543
1,063 Tradeoffs in Processing Complex Join Queries via Hashing in Multiprocessor Database Machines 1990 VLDB 0.00014352292
1,104 Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling 2017 CIDR 0.0001398479
1,145 Estimating Alphanumeric Selectivity in the Presence of Wildcards 1996 SIGMOD 0.00013672625
1,181 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00013447487
1,254 Fixed-Precision Estimation of Join Selectivity 1993 PODS 0.00013018797
1,420 SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems 1996 VLDB 0.00012068815
1,432 Combinatorial Pattern Discovery for Scientific Data: Some Preliminary Results 1994 SIGMOD 0.00012000371
1,699 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00010848882
1,727 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010731889
1,756 Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010659753
1,780 Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine 1998 VLDB 0.00010558417
1,790 Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation 2004 SIGMOD 0.00010529479
1,978 Improved Selectivity Estimation by Combining Knowledge from Sampling and Synopses 2018 VLDB 9.8764627e-05
2,056 Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases 1999 SIGMOD 9.6692561e-05
2,154 SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning 2018 VLDB 9.4176683e-05
2,167 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 9.3879598e-05
2,222 SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 9.2598438e-05
2,364 Deep Learning Models for Selectivity Estimation of Multi-Attribute Queries 2020 SIGMOD 8.955077e-05
2,369 CS2: A New Database Synopsis for Query Estimation 2013 SIGMOD 8.9462051e-05
2,455 Optimizing Boolean Expressions in Object Bases 1992 VLDB 8.7667904e-05
3,056 Multiple Join Size Estimation by Virtual Domains (extended abstract) 1993 PODS 7.6459653e-05
3,133 Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap* 2005 SIGMOD 7.4979168e-05
3,455 Learned Cardinality Estimation: A Design Space Exploration and A Comparative Evaluation 2022 VLDB 7.0760196e-05
3,827 Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries 2021 SIGMOD 6.7195959e-05
3,924 A Unified Deep Model of Learning from both Data and Queries for Cardinality Estimation 2021 SIGMOD 6.6227223e-05
3,943 Exact Cardinality Query Optimization for Optimizer Testing 2009 VLDB 6.6067351e-05
3,965 Random Sampling from Pseudo-Ranked B+ Trees 1992 VLDB 6.5786424e-05
3,992 FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries 2023 SIGMOD 6.5519369e-05
4,250 The Power of Sampling in Knowledge Discovery 1994 PODS 6.3162039e-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
10 Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach 1983 VLDB 0.0012093675
28 Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition 1984 SIGMOD 0.00080571183
37 Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions 1988 PODS 0.00075597514
46 Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases 1986 VLDB 0.00071588702
114 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00046317654
133 Processing Aggregate Relational Queries with Hard Time Constraints 1989 SIGMOD 0.00043220055
226 Estimating Block Transfers and Join Sizes 1983 SIGMOD 0.0003243274
352 Random Sampling from B+ trees 1989 VLDB 0.00026276293
751 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00017155121
896 Selectivity Estimation and Query Optimization in Large Databases with Highly Skewed Distributions of Column Values 1988 VLDB 0.00015486851
897 Estimating the Size of Generalized Transitive Closures 1989 VLDB 0.00015484372
1,399 A Model of Data Distribution Based on Texture Analysis 1985 SIGMOD 0.00012197728
2,865 Database Evaluation Using Multiple Regression Techniques 1984 SIGMOD 7.9943575e-05
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