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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
2527
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00037054261
Overall Rank
76 | 99.49%
DOI
10.1145/93597.93611

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lipton_sigmod90,
        title = {{Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling}},
        author = {Lipton, Richard J. and Naughton, Jeffrey F. and Schneider, Donovan A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/93597.93611},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.93611},
        year = {1990}
}

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35 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00048481081
101 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00034376651
136 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00030123303
222 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024193708
267 Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees 1998 VLDB 0.00022798161
274 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022645621
280 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022454217
307 Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets 2000 VLDB 0.00021792475
339 Sequential Sampling Procedures For Query Size Estimation 1992 SIGMOD 0.00020723773
363 Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial 2001 VLDB 0.0002005475
418 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00018812821
435 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.000185063
448 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00018292618
465 An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator 2020 VLDB 0.0001803934
484 Error-Constrained COUNT Query Evaluation in Relational Databases 1991 SIGMOD 0.00017746696
508 Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? 1998 SIGMOD 0.00017275873
566 Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00016436005
593 Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks 2016 SIGMOD 0.00016027871
694 Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling 2017 CIDR 0.00014911698
730 Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014539362
904 Tradeoffs in Processing Complex Join Queries via Hashing in Multiprocessor Database Machines 1990 VLDB 0.00013319798
1,061 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00012369764
1,097 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00012181027
1,140 Estimating Alphanumeric Selectivity in the Presence of Wildcards 1996 SIGMOD 0.0001200574
1,170 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011827259
1,172 An Instant and Accurate Size Estimation Method for Joins and Selection in a Retrieval-Intensive Environment 1993 SIGMOD 0.00011825923
1,186 Fixed-Precision Estimation of Join Selectivity 1993 PODS 0.00011764128
1,256 Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011457194
1,440 On the Relative Cost of Sampling for Join Selectivity Estimation 1994 PODS 0.00010778889
1,503 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 0.000105564
1,536 Improved Selectivity Estimation by Combining Knowledge from Sampling and Synopses 2018 VLDB 0.00010460864
1,544 Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine 1998 VLDB 0.00010410466
1,558 SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems 1996 VLDB 0.00010366362
1,573 Deep Learning Models for Selectivity Estimation of Multi-Attribute Queries 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010328171
1,603 Combinatorial Pattern Discovery for Scientific Data: Some Preliminary Results 1994 SIGMOD 0.00010236342
1,712 SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 9.9492299e-05
1,806 Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation 2004 SIGMOD 9.7112151e-05
1,815 SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning 2018 VLDB 9.6894541e-05
1,893 CS2: A New Database Synopsis for Query Estimation 2013 SIGMOD 9.5269935e-05
2,127 Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases 1999 SIGMOD 9.127762e-05
2,633 Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap* 2005 SIGMOD 8.3224527e-05
2,723 Learned Cardinality Estimation: A Design Space Exploration and A Comparative Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.2049453e-05
2,923 Optimizing Boolean Expressions in Object Bases 1992 VLDB 7.9578414e-05
2,984 Multiple Join Size Estimation by Virtual Domains (extended abstract) 1993 PODS 7.8920597e-05
2,991 FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries 2023 SIGMOD 7.8880723e-05
3,086 A Unified Deep Model of Learning from both Data and Queries for Cardinality Estimation 2021 SIGMOD 7.7708642e-05
3,228 Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries 2021 SIGMOD 7.6215176e-05
3,426 Exact Cardinality Query Optimization for Optimizer Testing 2009 VLDB 7.4218997e-05
3,545 Astrid: Accurate Selectivity Estimation for String Predicates using Deep Learning 2021 VLDB 7.3249967e-05
4,458 Random Sampling from Pseudo-Ranked B+ Trees 1992 VLDB 6.6905953e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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 0.0024089429
36 Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition 1984 SIGMOD 0.00048351457
45 Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach 1983 VLDB 0.00045531113
55 Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions 1988 PODS 0.00040746149
118 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00031922279
173 Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases 1986 VLDB 0.00027273858
178 Processing Aggregate Relational Queries with Hard Time Constraints 1989 SIGMOD 0.00026881845
417 Estimating Block Transfers and Join Sizes 1983 SIGMOD 0.00018819871
467 Random Sampling from B+ trees 1989 VLDB 0.00018002218
934 Selectivity Estimation and Query Optimization in Large Databases with Highly Skewed Distributions of Column Values 1988 VLDB 0.00013108714
992 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00012790174
1,382 Estimating the Size of Generalized Transitive Closures 1989 VLDB 0.00010965236
1,614 A Model of Data Distribution Based on Texture Analysis 1985 SIGMOD 0.00010215186
3,280 Database Evaluation Using Multiple Regression Techniques 1984 SIGMOD 7.5709479e-05
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