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Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates

Summary: Proposes a systematic taxonomy of histograms for range-predicate selectivity estimation, unifying prior types and enabling novel design combinations. Demonstrates sampling to reduce histogram construction cost and empirically evaluates types on range queries to identify the best performers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2892
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.00063612837
Overall Rank
64 | 99.56%
DOI
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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
28 Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition 1984 SIGMOD 0.00080435857
59 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00064501896
92 Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling 1990 SIGMOD 0.00051315959
99 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.00050022914
116 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00046148737
252 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030632263
327 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00027308479
387 Optimization of Large Join Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.0002471967
399 Randomized Algorithms For Optimizing Large Join Queries 1990 SIGMOD 0.00024315433
808 Universality of Serial Histograms 1993 VLDB 0.00016432772
1,020 An Instant and Accurate Size Estimation Method for Joins and Selection in a Retrieval-Intensive Environment 1993 SIGMOD 0.00014624893
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