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STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram

Summary: STHoles is a workload-aware multidimensional histogram with nested buckets that capture uniform-density regions. Built without scanning data, it uses query results to place buckets where the workload concentrates, yielding accurate selectivity and often outperforming data-driven histograms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3270
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2001
Pagerank
0.00021380733
Overall Rank
512 | 96.44%
DOI
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224 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00032746205
325 The History of Histograms (abridged) 2003 VLDB 0.00027378328
449 Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial 2001 VLDB 0.00022846068
758 Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation 2020 VLDB 0.0001706608
790 Exploiting Statistics on Query Expressions for Optimization 2002 SIGMOD 0.0001663283
852 Dynamic Multidimensional Histograms 2002 SIGMOD 0.00015941524
934 Flexible Database Generators 2005 VLDB 0.00015227409
1,019 Robust Estimation of Resource Consumption for SQL Queries using Statistical Techniques 2012 VLDB 0.00014625603
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1,254 Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models 2019 VLDB 0.00013027411
1,386 A Privacy-Preserving Index for Range Queries 2004 VLDB 0.00012261809
1,443 Compressing SQL Workloads 2002 SIGMOD 0.00011947004
1,638 Cardinality Estimation in DBMS: A Comprehensive Benchmark Evaluation 2022 VLDB 0.00011049779
1,703 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00010836769
1,737 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010720294
1,758 Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010655546
2,096 Automatic Categorization of Query Results 2004 SIGMOD 9.5498009e-05
2,100 Query Optimization over Web Services 2006 VLDB 9.5443207e-05
2,137 SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set for Dynamically Changing Workloads 2003 VLDB 9.4719326e-05
2,165 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 9.389622e-05
2,291 Data Generation using Declarative Constraints 2011 SIGMOD 9.0926719e-05
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2,364 Deep Learning Models for Selectivity Estimation of Multi-Attribute Queries 2020 SIGMOD 8.9554751e-05
2,444 Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries 2008 VLDB 8.8076551e-05
2,549 GORDIAN: Efficient and Scalable Discovery of Composite Keys 2006 VLDB 8.5641554e-05
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3,499 Fauce: Fast and Accurate Deep Ensembles with Uncertainty for Cardinality Estimation 2021 VLDB 7.0376445e-05
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5,401 ALECE: An Attention-based Learned Cardinality Estimator for SPJ Queries on Dynamic Workloads 2024 VLDB 5.5285035e-05
5,535 Lightweight Cardinality Estimation in LSM-based Systems 2018 SIGMOD 5.4539235e-05
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5,645 Warper: Efficiently Adapting Learned Cardinality Estimators to Data and Workload Drifts 2022 SIGMOD 5.3923454e-05
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6,345 Operator and Query Progress Estimation in Microsoft SQL Server Live Query Statistics 2016 SIGMOD 5.1023048e-05
6,368 Pre-training Summarization Models of Structured Datasets for Cardinality Estimation 2022 VLDB 5.0937722e-05
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7,136 Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems 2003 VLDB 4.8220711e-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
28 Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition 1984 SIGMOD 0.00080435857
64 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00063612837
116 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00046148737
141 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00041786333
222 Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation 1998 SIGMOD 0.00032828302
252 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030632263
269 Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms 1997 VLDB 0.00029656549
326 Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees 1998 VLDB 0.00027358981
327 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00027308479
361 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00025775749
529 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020828852
996 Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014741524
1,241 Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information 1999 SIGMOD 0.00013097578
1,479 Towards an Analysis of Range Query Performance in Spatial Data Structures 1993 PODS 0.00011749057
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