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: 3730
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 8.3224527e-05
Overall Rank: 2,633 | 81.94%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066224

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Authors

1. Abhijit Pol (University of Florida)
2. Christopher Jermaine (University of Florida)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{pol_sigmod05,
        title = {{Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap*}},
        author = {Pol, Abhijit and Jermaine, Christopher},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066224},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066224},
        year = {2005}
}

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772	VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	0.00014147905
1,401	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010889902
1,872	The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing	2014	SIGMOD	9.5759874e-05
1,995	Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time	2017	SIGMOD	9.3403665e-05
2,206	DAQ: A New Paradigm for Approximate Query Processing	2015	VLDB	8.957715e-05
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3,366	AQP++: Connecting Approximate Query Processing With Aggregate Precomputation for Interactive Analytics	2018	SIGMOD	7.4748604e-05
5,358	ABS: a System for Scalable Approximate Queries with Accuracy Guarantees	2014	SIGMOD	6.2492955e-05
6,122	iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP	2016	SIGMOD	5.9687498e-05
7,847	Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines	2024	VLDB	5.5330423e-05
8,204	PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees	2025	SIGMOD	5.4667903e-05
9,591	Sapprox: Enabling Efficient and Accurate Approximations on Sub-datasets with Distribution-aware Online Sampling	2017	VLDB	5.2518295e-05
10,186	Accelerating Approximate Analytical Join Queries over Unstructured Data with Statistical Guarantees	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,916	Demonstration of VerdictDB, the Platform-Independent AQP System	2018	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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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
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00077458002
75	Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute	1995	VLDB	0.00037277061
76	Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling	1990	SIGMOD	0.00037054261
131	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00030424509
288	Towards Estimation Error Guarantees for Distinct Values	2000	PODS	0.00022296371
327	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021091539
1,186	Fixed-Precision Estimation of Join Selectivity	1993	PODS	0.00011764128

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