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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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7,442 Selectivity Functions of Range Queries are Learnable* 2022 SIGMOD 4.7248554e-05
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7,564 Modeling Shifting Workloads for Learned Database Systems 2024 SIGMOD 4.7049893e-05
7,725 Consistent Histograms In The Presence of Distinct Value Counts 2009 VLDB 4.6621296e-05
7,740 CXHist : An On-line Classification-Based Histogram for XML String Selectivity Estimation 2005 VLDB 4.658789e-05
7,776 Plan Stitch: Harnessing the Best of Many Plans 2018 VLDB 4.6493147e-05
8,360 Query Log Compression for Workload Analytics 2019 VLDB 4.5314883e-05
8,471 Adaptive Index Structures 2002 VLDB 4.4986491e-05
8,636 WISK: A Workload-aware Learned Index for Spatial Keyword Queries 2023 SIGMOD 4.4758336e-05
8,870 DataSynth: Generating Synthetic Data using Declarative Constraints 2011 VLDB 4.4274172e-05
9,059 Optimality and Scalability in Lattice Histogram Construction 2009 VLDB 4.3997447e-05
9,387 Small Selectivities Matter: Lifting the Burden of Empty Samples 2021 SIGMOD 4.341968e-05
9,508 Hierarchically Organized Skew-Tolerant Histograms for Geographic Data Objects 2010 SIGMOD 4.3300131e-05
9,525 Detecting Attribute Dependencies from Query Feedback 2007 VLDB 4.326879e-05
9,811 A Practical Theory of Generalization in Selectivity Learning 2025 VLDB 4.2742278e-05
9,868 Turbo-Charging SPJ Query Plans with Learned Physical Join Operator Selections 2022 VLDB 4.2634472e-05
9,877 PRICE: A Pretrained Model for Cross-Database Cardinality Estimation 2025 VLDB 4.2615675e-05
9,947 SSCard: Substring Cardinality Estimation using Suffix Tree-Guided Learned FM-Index 2026 SIGMOD 4.2391999e-05
10,627 Data-Agnostic Cardinality Learning from Imperfect Workloads 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,087 Presto’s History-based Query Optimizer 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,068 Statistics Collection in Oracle Spatial and Graph: Fast Histogram Construction for Complex Geometry Objects 2013 VLDB 4.1905499e-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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