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The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System

Summary: Aqua precomputes synopses and rewrites aggregates for fast, approximate results with probabilistic guarantees on any RDBMS. Incremental maintenance keeps synopses up to date as data changes, enabling orders-of-magnitude faster queries when precision is unnecessary. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3160
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00023397171
Overall Rank
431 | 97.01%
DOI
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149 Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage 2005 CIDR 0.00041085859
212 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033997204
316 Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports 2001 VLDB 0.00027981848
449 An Optimal Algorithm for the Distinct Elements Problem 2010 PODS 0.00022914472
849 Dynamic Multidimensional Histograms 2002 SIGMOD 0.00015919478
1,116 Global Optimization of Histograms 2001 SIGMOD 0.00013863484
1,161 VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013579831
1,198 Crossing the Structure Chasm 2003 CIDR 0.00013360548
1,320 Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012606067
1,331 ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering 2000 VLDB 0.00012553948
1,354 Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System 2018 VLDB 0.00012424105
1,507 Overview of Data Exploration Techniques 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011594294
1,574 Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011289028
2,005 Rapid Sampling for Visualizations with Ordering Guarantees 2015 VLDB 9.8168893e-05
2,126 IDEBench: A Benchmark for Interactive Data Exploration 2020 SIGMOD 9.4814404e-05
2,177 A Sample-and-Clean Framework for Fast and Accurate Query Processing on Dirty Data 2014 SIGMOD 9.371335e-05
2,354 G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data 2015 SIGMOD 8.9748896e-05
2,424 The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing 2014 SIGMOD 8.8415494e-05
2,494 DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models 2019 SIGMOD 8.6457436e-05
2,583 Sample + Seek: Approximating Aggregates with Distribution Precision Guarantee 2016 SIGMOD 8.4973431e-05
2,589 Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time 2017 SIGMOD 8.4868591e-05
2,720 Davos: A System for Interactive Data-Driven Decision Making 2021 VLDB 8.2349824e-05
2,752 REHIST: Relative Error Histogram Construction Algorithms 2004 VLDB 8.1723418e-05
2,995 A Sampling Algebra for Aggregate Estimation 2013 VLDB 7.7606324e-05
3,013 Cardinality Estimation Using Sample Views with Quality Assurance 2007 SIGMOD 7.7082045e-05
3,133 Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap* 2005 SIGMOD 7.4979168e-05
3,292 Optimal and Approximate Computation of Summary Statistics for Range Aggregates 2001 PODS 7.2598265e-05
3,680 Efficient Selection of Geospatial Data on Maps for Interactive and Visualized Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 6.845947e-05
3,720 Space efficiency in Synopsis construction algorithms 2005 VLDB 6.8139746e-05
3,841 I've Seen "Enough": Incrementally Improving Visualizations to Support Rapid Decision Making 2017 VLDB 6.7090738e-05
3,944 AQP++: Connecting Approximate Query Processing With Aggregate Precomputation for Interactive Analytics 2018 SIGMOD 6.6056349e-05
4,020 Revisiting Reuse for Approximate Query Processing 2017 VLDB 6.5209063e-05
4,022 Exploiting Correlations for Expensive Predicate Evaluation 2015 SIGMOD 6.5185189e-05
4,413 Robust Query Driven Cardinality Estimation under Changing Workloads 2023 VLDB 6.1989918e-05
4,431 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.1870601e-05
4,501 Rethinking Data Management for Storage-centric Sensor Networks 2007 CIDR 6.1325842e-05
4,679 Adaptive Sampling for Rapidly Matching Histograms 2018 VLDB 5.9978792e-05
4,961 Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes 2005 PODS 5.7992561e-05
5,543 Lightweight Cardinality Estimation in LSM-based Systems 2018 SIGMOD 5.4486922e-05
5,817 BlinkML: Efficient Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Probabilistic Guarantees 2019 SIGMOD 5.3154329e-05
5,867 ABS: a System for Scalable Approximate Queries with Accuracy Guarantees 2014 SIGMOD 5.2933639e-05
6,230 Mosaic: A Sample-Based Database System for Open World Query Processing 2020 CIDR 5.1402482e-05
6,631 iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP 2016 SIGMOD 4.9805704e-05
7,302 Tempura: A General Cost-Based Optimizer Framework for Incremental Data Processing 2021 VLDB 4.763304e-05
7,533 Enabling Efficient and General Subpopulation Analytics in Multidimensional Data Streams 2022 VLDB 4.7134753e-05
8,416 The DBO Database System 2008 SIGMOD 4.512905e-05
8,669 CoopStore: Optimizing Precomputed Summaries for Aggregation 2020 VLDB 4.4667395e-05
9,116 Towards Observability for Production Machine Learning Pipelines 2022 VLDB 4.3886184e-05
9,238 PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees 2025 SIGMOD 4.3648789e-05
10,616 Approximation-First Timeseries Query At Scale 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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