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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
3271
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2001
Pagerank
0.00021385343
Overall Rank
512 | 96.45%
DOI
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752 Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation 2020 VLDB 0.00017138049
786 Exploiting Statistics on Query Expressions for Optimization 2002 SIGMOD 0.00016624743
849 Dynamic Multidimensional Histograms 2002 SIGMOD 0.00015919478
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1,383 A Privacy-Preserving Index for Range Queries 2004 VLDB 0.00012262651
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1,699 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00010848882
1,727 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010731889
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2,101 Automatic Categorization of Query Results 2004 SIGMOD 9.5406958e-05
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2,295 Data Generation using Declarative Constraints 2011 SIGMOD 9.0842571e-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 0.00080571183
63 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00063595699
114 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00046317654
141 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00041819767
223 Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation 1998 SIGMOD 0.00032829841
250 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030640525
270 Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms 1997 VLDB 0.00029648047
326 Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees 1998 VLDB 0.0002737538
328 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00027301497
360 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00025768448
527 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020862475
995 Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014745185
1,240 Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information 1999 SIGMOD 0.00013090678
1,476 Towards an Analysis of Range Query Performance in Spatial Data Structures 1993 PODS 0.00011752931
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