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FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries

Summary: FactorJoin blends histogram efficiency with learned correlations. Offline single-table distributions and a factor-graph join model enable cardinality estimates without denormalization or workloads; small footprint and 40x latency, 100x smaller model. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
6606
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2023
Pagerank
7.8880723e-05
Overall Rank
2,991 | 79.49%
DOI
10.1145/3588721

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wu_sigmod23,
        title = {{FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries}},
        author = {Wu, Ziniu and Negi, Parimarjan and Alizadeh, Mohammad and Kraska, Tim and Madden, Samuel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3588721},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3588721},
        year = {2023}
}

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