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Combining Sampling and Synopses with Worst-Case Optimal Runtime and Quality Guarantees for Graph Pattern Cardinality Estimation
Summary: ALLEY blends sampling and synopses for graph-pattern cardinality estimation. It introduces random-walk-with-intersection sampling, variance-reducing branching, and mined tangled-pattern synopses to deliver unbiased online estimates with worst-case optimal runtime and accuracy guarantees.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6138
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2021
- Pagerank
- 4.9507418e-05
- Overall Rank
- 6,705 | 53.41%
- DOI
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10.1145/3448016.3457246
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| 341 |
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2016 |
SIGMOD |
0.00026850764 |
| 503 |
Worst-case Optimal Join Algorithms |
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0.00021517145 |
| 610 |
Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
0.00019204048 |
| 627 |
Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding the Impact of Cardinality Estimation Errors |
2009 |
VLDB |
0.00018959896 |
| 941 |
Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
0.00015147831 |
| 1,045 |
Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications |
2001 |
VLDB |
0.00014451072 |
| 1,095 |
GRAMI: Frequent Subgraph and Pattern Mining in a Single Large Graph |
2014 |
VLDB |
0.00014103799 |
| 1,104 |
Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling |
2017 |
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| 1,194 |
Join Size Estimation Subject to Filter Conditions |
2015 |
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0.00013411666 |
| 1,334 |
Optimizing Subgraph Queries by Combining Binary and Worst-Case Optimal Joins |
2019 |
VLDB |
0.00012543633 |
| 1,372 |
Random Sampling over Joins Revisited |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
0.0001233325 |
| 1,522 |
Efficient Subgraph Matching: Harmonizing Dynamic Programming, Adaptive Matching Order, and Failing Set Together |
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SIGMOD |
0.0001152219 |
| 1,746 |
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2017 |
SIGMOD |
0.0001069135 |
| 1,906 |
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2020 |
SIGMOD |
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| 2,143 |
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SIGMOD |
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| 2,359 |
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VLDB |
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| 3,644 |
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2020 |
SIGMOD |
6.8842065e-05 |
| 5,871 |
Taming Subgraph Isomorphism for RDF Query Processing |
2015 |
VLDB |
5.2912806e-05 |
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