Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap*

Summary: Proposes a plug-in bootstrap to compute confidence bounds for relational queries over sampled or incomplete data. Easy for DB programmers, broadly applicable, and ready to be integrated into analytic DBMS to provide probabilistic guarantees for AQP. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3668
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 7.4523397e-05
Overall Rank: 3,167 | 77.97%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Abhijit Pol
2. Christopher Jermaine

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Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

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1,204	VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013319541
1,874	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010244443
2,365	The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing	2014	SIGMOD	8.9551432e-05
2,588	Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time	2017	SIGMOD	8.4909562e-05
2,616	DAQ: A New Paradigm for Approximate Query Processing	2015	VLDB	8.4471955e-05
3,279	Early Accurate Results for Advanced Analytics on MapReduce	2012	VLDB	7.2855494e-05
3,944	AQP++: Connecting Approximate Query Processing With Aggregate Precomputation for Interactive Analytics	2018	SIGMOD	6.6078243e-05
5,868	ABS: a System for Scalable Approximate Queries with Accuracy Guarantees	2014	SIGMOD	5.2959352e-05
6,400	iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP	2016	SIGMOD	5.0803518e-05
8,080	Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines	2024	VLDB	4.5911668e-05
9,384	Sapprox: Enabling Efficient and Accurate Approximations on Sub-datasets with Distribution-aware Online Sampling	2017	VLDB	4.3456129e-05
10,497	PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,711	Demonstration of VerdictDB, the Platform-Independent AQP System	2018	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010801504
59	Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute	1995	VLDB	0.00064501896
92	Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling	1990	SIGMOD	0.00051315959
217	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00033536712
378	Towards Estimation Error Guarantees for Distinct Values	2000	PODS	0.0002497492
429	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00023476494
1,255	Fixed-Precision Estimation of Join Selectivity	1993	PODS	0.00013024064

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