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PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees

Summary: PilotDB provides database-agnostic online AQP with a priori error guarantees using TAQA; BSAP enables fast block-level sampling. Prototype middleware on PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DuckDB; up to 126x speedups at 5% guaranteed error, with no DBMS changes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7255
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2025
Pagerank
4.3648789e-05
Overall Rank
9,238 | 35.80%
DOI
10.1145/3725335

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212 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033997204
216 Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033560137
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431 The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System 1999 SIGMOD 0.00023397171
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960 Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00015031055
1,161 VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013579831
1,257 Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013002384
1,320 Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012606067
1,331 ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering 2000 VLDB 0.00012553948
1,372 Random Sampling over Joins Revisited 2018 SIGMOD 0.0001233325
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
1,574 Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011289028
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
2,494 DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models 2019 SIGMOD 8.6457436e-05
2,848 A General-Purpose Counting Filter: Making Every Bit Count 2017 SIGMOD 8.0202739e-05
2,937 DSB: A Decision Support Benchmark for Workload-Driven and Traditional Database Systems 2021 VLDB 7.8552033e-05
2,995 A Sampling Algebra for Aggregate Estimation 2013 VLDB 7.7606324e-05
3,066 Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases 2020 SIGMOD 7.6255556e-05
3,133 Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap* 2005 SIGMOD 7.4979168e-05
3,150 The MemSQL Query Optimizer: A modern optimizer for real-time analytics in a distributed database 2016 VLDB 7.4765759e-05
3,808 Turbo-Charging Estimate Convergence in DBO 2009 VLDB 6.7416988e-05
4,020 Revisiting Reuse for Approximate Query Processing 2017 VLDB 6.5209063e-05
4,703 Accelerating Approximate Aggregation Queries with Expensive Predicates 2021 VLDB 5.9793615e-05
4,815 DigitHist: a Histogram-Based Data Summary with Tight Error Bounds 2017 VLDB 5.8978716e-05
5,578 CliffGuard: A Principled Framework for Finding Robust Database Designs 2015 SIGMOD 5.4231783e-05
5,815 Database Benchmarking for Supporting Real-Time Interactive Querying of Large Data 2020 SIGMOD 5.3158788e-05
5,867 ABS: a System for Scalable Approximate Queries with Accuracy Guarantees 2014 SIGMOD 5.2933639e-05
6,332 Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine 2024 SIGMOD 5.1021765e-05
6,402 Approximate Query Engines: Commercial Challenges and Research Opportunities 2017 SIGMOD 5.0725227e-05
6,481 Joins on Samples: A Theoretical Guide for Practitioners 2020 VLDB 5.039683e-05
7,911 Accelerating Aggregation Queries on Unstructured Streams of Data 2023 VLDB 4.6143141e-05
8,586 Bias-Aware Sketches 2017 VLDB 4.4855966e-05
8,606 ProgressiveDB – Progressive Data Analytics as a Middleware 2019 VLDB 4.4811623e-05
9,032 Making Data Clouds Smarter at Keebo: Automated Warehouse Optimization using Data Learning 2023 SIGMOD 4.3998185e-05
9,944 DeepOLA: Online Aggregation for Deeply Nested Queries 2022 SIGMOD 4.240067e-05
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9,946 Distributed Wavelet Thresholding for Maximum Error Metrics 2016 SIGMOD 4.240067e-05
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