Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling

Summary: Index-based join sampling: a main-memory cardinality estimator that uses existing indexes to sample join results and produce accurate multi-table cardinalities. Low, configurable sampling overhead substantially improves estimates and end-to-end plan quality and integrates easily into existing systems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 313
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00013990395
Overall Rank: 1,105 | 92.32%
DOI: -

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Showing 2 of 52 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,446	Index-Based Join Size Estimation Using Adaptive Sampling	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,698	Tighter Upper Bounds for Join Cardinality Estimates	2018	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-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
71	How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2016	VLDB	0.00059038975
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
115	Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing	2000	SIGMOD	0.00046221215
182	LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer	2001	VLDB	0.00036962631
418	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023729211
553	Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation	1996	SIGMOD	0.00020272061
650	Robust Query Processing through Progressive Optimization	2004	SIGMOD	0.00018659177
1,272	Proactive Re-Optimization	2005	SIGMOD	0.00012920076
1,341	Dynamic Programming Strikes Back	2008	SIGMOD	0.00012486285
1,758	Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010655546
2,356	Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of Predicates	2005	VLDB	8.9620762e-05
2,377	CS2: A New Database Synopsis for Query Estimation	2013	SIGMOD	8.9402115e-05
2,631	Plan Bouquets: Query Processing without Selectivity Estimation	2014	SIGMOD	8.4101843e-05
2,742	Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting	2015	SIGMOD	8.1906104e-05
2,785	Counter Strike: Generic Top-Down Join Enumeration for Hypergraphs	2013	VLDB	8.1286814e-05
4,262	Efficient Processing of Window Functions in Analytical SQL Queries	2015	VLDB	6.3117226e-05
4,617	Adaptive Query Processing in the Looking Glass	2005	CIDR	6.0446738e-05
4,738	Query Simplification: Graceful Degradation for Join-Order Optimization	2009	SIGMOD	5.9600502e-05
6,874	ROX: Run-time Optimization of XQueries	2009	SIGMOD	4.8978984e-05

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