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Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption

Summary: Selectivity estimation without attribute independence: joint frequencies drive results; per-attribute histograms are inaccurate. Proposes two options: (a) multi-d histogram, (b) SVD-based joint modeling; experiments compare accuracy vs independence. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8449
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
0.00041786333
Overall Rank
141 | 99.03%
DOI
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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
28 Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition 1984 SIGMOD 0.00080435857
64 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00063612837
92 Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling 1990 SIGMOD 0.00051315959
116 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00046148737
290 Linear Clustering of Objects with Multiple Attributes 1990 SIGMOD 0.00028919734
327 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00027308479
354 Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree Using Fractals 1994 VLDB 0.00026137988
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