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Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries

Summary: Necessary-probe principle for top-k queries with expensive predicates (external UDFs, fuzzy similarity) that defy zero-time indexing. MPro is provably optimal, parallelizable, and dramatically reduces probes versus full probing; demonstrated on real-estate and synthetic data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3362
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00014120512
Overall Rank
1,096 | 92.38%
DOI
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1,830 Relaxing Join and Selection Queries 2006 VLDB 0.000103862
2,009 IO-Top-k: Index-access Optimized Top-k Query Processing 2006 VLDB 9.7977564e-05
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2,599 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4702307e-05
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3,558 Approximate Selection with Guarantees using Proxies 2020 VLDB 6.9765724e-05
3,667 Querying Structured Text in an XML Database 2003 SIGMOD 6.8602249e-05
3,807 Supporting Ad-hoc Ranking Aggregates 2006 SIGMOD 6.747576e-05
4,186 Best Position Algorithms for Top-k Queries 2007 VLDB 6.3764858e-05
4,711 Answering Top-k Queries with Multi-Dimensional Selections: The Ranking Cube Approach 2006 VLDB 5.9790683e-05
6,654 Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring 2007 CIDR 4.9733876e-05
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7,268 Top-K Structural Diversity Search in Large Networks 2013 VLDB 4.7817823e-05
7,276 Efficient and Generic Evaluation of Ranked Queries 2011 SIGMOD 4.7798595e-05
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7,750 Computing Immutable Regions for Subspace Top-k Queries 2013 VLDB 4.6607023e-05
7,899 Sideway Value Algebra for Object-Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 4.6226726e-05
8,040 Distributed Threshold Querying of General Functions by a Difference of Monotonic Representation 2011 VLDB 4.600049e-05
8,507 ARCube: Supporting Ranking Aggregate Queries in Partially Materialized Data Cubes 2008 SIGMOD 4.4955397e-05
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11,883 Query Reranking As A Service 2016 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,111 Optimal Top-k Generation of Attribute Combinations based on Ranked Lists 2012 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,301 Privacy Preservation of Aggregates in Hidden Databases: Why and How? 2009 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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7 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015496097
72 Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems 1996 PODS 0.00058577335
139 Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates 1993 SIGMOD 0.00042299329
150 Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 0.00041055843
195 Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories 1996 SIGMOD 0.00035406558
465 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022455702
470 On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL 1997 SIGMOD 0.00022393068
552 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00020310903
805 Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries 1999 VLDB 0.00016437265
1,080 A Framework for Expressing and Combining Preferences 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014217619
1,772 Optimizing Disjunctive Queries with Expensive Predicates 1994 SIGMOD 0.0001061019
1,789 Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine 1998 VLDB 0.00010555087
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