Constructing Join Histograms from Histograms with q-error Guarantees
Summary: Constructs a join histogram from two single-column histograms on different attributes with q-error guarantees, without accessing base data. Linear-time construction; output size ≤ sum of input sizes; enables accurate join cardinality estimation, with rare theoretical adversarial failures. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Kaleb Alway (University of Waterloo)
- 2. Anisoara Nica (SAP)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{alway_sigmod16,
title = {{Constructing Join Histograms from Histograms with q-error Guarantees}},
author = {Alway, Kaleb and Nica, Anisoara},
series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2882903.2914828},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2914828},
year = {2016}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,891 | Cardinality Estimation for Having-Clauses | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,556 | Scaling Equi-Joins | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,693 | Exploiting Ordered Dictionaries to Efficiently Construct Histograms with Q-Error Guarantees in SAP HANA | 2014 | SIGMOD | 6.1189424e-05 |
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