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Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of Predicates

Summary: Introduces a maximum-entropy (ME) framework for consistently estimating the selectivity of conjunctive predicates under multivariate statistics. ME exploits all available information, avoids ad hoc bias, and falls back to uniform/independence when data are sparse, improving cardinality estimates and plan quality. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9319
Venue
VLDB
Year
2005
Pagerank
8.9620762e-05
Overall Rank
2,356 | 83.62%
DOI
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71 How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2016 VLDB 0.00059038975
502 Worst-case Optimal Join Algorithms 2012 PODS 0.00021526612
1,105 Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling 2017 CIDR 0.00013990395
1,703 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00010836769
1,737 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010720294
3,408 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.1288167e-05
4,474 Measure-driven Keyword-Query Expansion 2009 VLDB 6.1528736e-05
5,977 Understanding Cardinality Estimation using Entropy Maximization 2010 PODS 5.2455909e-05
6,704 Combining Sampling and Synopses with Worst-Case Optimal Runtime and Quality Guarantees for Graph Pattern Cardinality Estimation 2021 SIGMOD 4.9554912e-05
7,457 Selectivity Functions of Range Queries are Learnable* 2022 SIGMOD 4.7247191e-05
7,728 Consistent Histograms In The Presence of Distinct Value Counts 2009 VLDB 4.666214e-05
7,872 Probabilistic Database Summarization for Interactive Data Exploration 2017 VLDB 4.6307184e-05
9,747 Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2025 VLDB 4.2897489e-05
13,622 MAXENT: Consistent Cardinality Estimation in Action 2006 SIGMOD -
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
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
99 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.00050022914
182 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00036962631
224 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00032746205
372 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00025354779
512 STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram 2001 SIGMOD 0.00021380733
529 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020828852
790 Exploiting Statistics on Query Expressions for Optimization 2002 SIGMOD 0.0001663283
842 Independence is Good: Dependency-Based Histogram Synopses for High-Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 0.00016031973
897 Selectivity Estimation and Query Optimization in Large Databases with Highly Skewed Distributions of Column Values 1988 VLDB 0.00015528028
2,556 Probabilistic Optimization of Top N Queries 1999 VLDB 8.5465733e-05
3,053 Multiple Join Size Estimation by Virtual Domains (extended abstract) 1993 PODS 7.64969e-05
3,397 Statistics on Views 2003 VLDB 7.1437062e-05
3,651 Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions 2004 SIGMOD 6.8768678e-05
5,025 Automated Statistics Collection in DB2 UDB 2004 VLDB 5.7533741e-05
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