Wander Join: Online Aggregation for Joins

Summary: Wander Join proposes random-walk online aggregation for joins, replacing costly ripple-join methods and relaxing order constraints. It traverses the join graph with random walks to yield continuous, approximate results, with PostgreSQL implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5186
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.4624568e-05
Overall Rank: 8,685 | 39.64%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2889413

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7,188	LPLM: A Neural Language Model for Cardinality Estimation of LIKE-Queries	2024	SIGMOD	4.8017628e-05
9,727	SPACE: Cardinality Estimation for Path Queries Using Cardinality-Aware Sequence-based Learning	2025	SIGMOD	4.2901665e-05
10,598	ACE: A Cardinality Estimator for Set-Valued Queries	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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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	0.0010813443
216	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00033560137
1,151	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00013634671
1,425	Scalable Approximate Query Processing With The DBO Engine	2007	SIGMOD	0.00012044433
1,849	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	0.00010331082
1,867	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010264932
2,208	A Scalable Hash Ripple Join Algorithm	2002	SIGMOD	9.2887018e-05
2,424	The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing	2014	SIGMOD	8.8415494e-05
2,995	A Sampling Algebra for Aggregate Estimation	2013	VLDB	7.7606324e-05
3,808	Turbo-Charging Estimate Convergence in DBO	2009	VLDB	6.7416988e-05
5,822	Derby/S: A DBMS for Sample-Based Query Answering	2006	SIGMOD	5.3131659e-05
5,867	ABS: a System for Scalable Approximate Queries with Accuracy Guarantees	2014	SIGMOD	5.2933639e-05

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