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Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters

Summary: Quickr lazily approximates ad-hoc queries in big-data clusters using on-the-fly samplers, no precomputed samples. A sampler for multi-join inputs, embedded in a cost-based optimizer with an accuracy bound, delivering ~2x resource savings on TPC-DS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5132
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2016
Pagerank
0.00012606067
Overall Rank
1,320 | 90.83%
DOI
10.1145/2882903.2882940

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2,254 Two-Level Sampling for Join Size Estimation 2017 SIGMOD 9.1871115e-05
2,494 DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models 2019 SIGMOD 8.6457436e-05
2,589 Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time 2017 SIGMOD 8.4868591e-05
3,944 AQP++: Connecting Approximate Query Processing With Aggregate Precomputation for Interactive Analytics 2018 SIGMOD 6.6056349e-05
5,128 Efficient Join Synopsis Maintenance for Data Warehouse 2020 SIGMOD 5.6728511e-05
5,799 Learned Approximate Query Processing: Make it Light, Accurate and Fast 2021 CIDR 5.3219666e-05
5,817 BlinkML: Efficient Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Probabilistic Guarantees 2019 SIGMOD 5.3154329e-05
5,910 At-the-time and Back-in-time Persistent Sketches 2021 SIGMOD 5.2718714e-05
6,278 The Cosmos Big Data Platform at Microsoft: Over a Decade of Progress and a Decade to Look Forward 2021 VLDB 5.1241654e-05
6,481 Joins on Samples: A Theoretical Guide for Practitioners 2020 VLDB 5.039683e-05
6,724 Combining Aggregation and Sampling (Nearly) Optimally for Approximate Query Processing 2021 SIGMOD 4.9449472e-05
7,335 SpareLLM: Automatically Selecting Task-Specific Minimum-Cost Large Language Models under Equivalence Constraint 2025 SIGMOD 4.7533835e-05
7,340 Weighted Distinct Sampling: Cardinality Estimation for SPJ Queries 2021 SIGMOD 4.7526052e-05
7,571 Identifying Insufficient Data Coverage in Databases with Multiple Relations 2020 VLDB 4.7037322e-05
7,875 Probabilistic Database Summarization for Interactive Data Exploration 2017 VLDB 4.6262777e-05
8,057 Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines 2024 VLDB 4.5903427e-05
8,139 Fast and Reliable Missing Data Contingency Analysis with Predicate-Constraints 2020 SIGMOD 4.5727142e-05
8,235 Experiences with Approximating Queries in Microsoft’s Production Big-Data Clusters 2019 VLDB 4.5481384e-05
8,370 LAQy: Efficient and Reusable Query Approximations via Lazy Sampling 2023 SIGMOD 4.5287754e-05
8,423 SPRINTER: A Fast n-ary Join Query Processing Method for Complex OLAP Queries 2020 SIGMOD 4.5112315e-05
8,642 One Size Does Not Fit All: A Bandit-Based Sampler Combination Framework with Theoretical Guarantees 2022 SIGMOD 4.4734993e-05
8,676 A Practical Approach to Groupjoin and Nested Aggregates 2021 VLDB 4.4652082e-05
8,712 Data Driven Approximation with Bounded Resources 2017 VLDB 4.4578168e-05
9,116 Towards Observability for Production Machine Learning Pipelines 2022 VLDB 4.3886184e-05
9,238 PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees 2025 SIGMOD 4.3648789e-05
9,391 Sapprox: Enabling Efficient and Accurate Approximations on Sub-datasets with Distribution-aware Online Sampling 2017 VLDB 4.3402854e-05
9,621 ShadowAQP: Efficient Approximate Group-by and Join Query via Attribute-oriented Sample Size Allocation and Data Generation 2023 VLDB 4.3125802e-05
9,653 Secure Sampling for Approximate Multi-party Query Processing 2023 SIGMOD 4.3067693e-05
9,695 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 4.298211e-05
9,760 Practical Dynamic Extension for Sampling Indexes 2023 SIGMOD 4.2838028e-05
9,945 AB-tree: Index for Concurrent Random Sampling and Updates 2022 VLDB 4.240067e-05
10,254 Secure Multi-Party Sampling over Joins 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,349 Efficient Approximate Query Processing with Block Sampling 2025 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
10,491 FAAQP: Fast and Accurate Approximate Query Processing based on Bitmap-augmented Sum-Product Network 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,574 Holistic query Approximation via RL Modeling 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,944 PECJ: Stream Window Join on Disorder Data Streams with Proactive Error Compensation 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,984 Enabling Adaptive Sampling for Intra-Window Join: Simultaneously Optimizing Quantity and Quality 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,196 A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation 2023 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,287 Approximate Queries over Concurrent Updates 2023 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,430 Accelerating Complex Analytics using Speculation 2021 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
11,506 In the Land of Data Streams where Synopses are Missing, One Framework to Bring Them All 2021 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,543 FlashP: An Analytical Pipeline for Real-time Forecasting of Time-Series Relational Data 2021 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,556 BitGourmet: Deterministic Approximation via Optimized Bit Selection 2020 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
11,589 Demonstration of BitGourmet: Data Analysis via Deterministic Approximation 2020 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,655 Query-Driven Learning for Next Generation Predictive Modeling & Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0024217964
14 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.0010813443
18 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.00092569117
22 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00084679526
43 Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems 2002 PODS 0.00072660894
66 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 0.00061707583
70 Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework 2009 VLDB 0.00059744625
109 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.00048217028
168 Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams 2002 VLDB 0.0003915627
194 Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System 2003 CIDR 0.00035402379
431 The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System 1999 SIGMOD 0.00023397171
531 Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? 1998 SIGMOD 0.0002079072
736 Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00017414831
737 On Synopses for Distinct-Value Estimation Under Multiset Operations 2007 SIGMOD 0.00017377393
1,257 Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013002384
1,425 Scalable Approximate Query Processing With The DBO Engine 2007 SIGMOD 0.00012044433
1,451 Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs 2011 VLDB 0.00011925842
1,735 SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality 2011 CIDR 0.00010713691
1,867 Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems 2014 SIGMOD 0.00010264932
2,354 G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data 2015 SIGMOD 8.9748896e-05
2,424 The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing 2014 SIGMOD 8.8415494e-05
2,813 A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries 2001 SIGMOD 8.0816314e-05
2,995 A Sampling Algebra for Aggregate Estimation 2013 VLDB 7.7606324e-05
5,119 Sampling Algorithms in a Stream Operator 2005 SIGMOD 5.6774637e-05
5,258 Error-bounded Sampling for Analytics on Big Sparse Data 2014 VLDB 5.5973455e-05
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