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Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems

Summary: Sampling-based AQP for large-scale analytics; error bars often fail on real workloads. Fast diagnostics of error-estimation failures and a pipeline that yields approximate answers with reliable bootstrap-based error bars at interactive speeds. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4859
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00010889902
Overall Rank
1,401 | 90.39%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2593667

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{agarwal_sigmod14,
        title = {{Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems}},
        author = {Agarwal, Sameer and Milner, Henry and Kleiner, Ariel and Talwalkar, Ameet and Jordan, Michael and Madden, Samuel and Mozafari, Barzan and Stoica, Ion},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2593667},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2593667},
        year = {2014}
}

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