Depth Estimation for Ranking Query Optimization

Summary: DEEP offers a principled framework to estimate input depth for rank-join operators from joint score distributions. Novel optimizer statistics algorithms enable accurate, data-aware depth estimation and better cost modeling for rank-join plans. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9641
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 4.9090969e-05
Overall Rank: 6,826 | 52.56%
DOI: -

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Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,965	Evaluating Rank Joins with Optimal Cost	2008	PODS	7.8049517e-05
4,072	Proximity Rank Join	2010	VLDB	6.4726748e-05
5,379	Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Rank Join Evaluation	2009	SIGMOD	5.5375923e-05
5,845	Optimal Join Algorithms Meet Top-k	2020	SIGMOD	5.3057391e-05
7,365	Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases	2011	SIGMOD	4.7459715e-05

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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
8	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0015436578
63	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00063595699
100	On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results	1991	SIGMOD	0.00050033475
212	Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering	1999	SIGMOD	0.00033997204
223	Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00032829841
274	Approximate Medians and other Quantiles in One Pass and with Limited Memory	1998	SIGMOD	0.00029383266
360	Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers	1999	VLDB	0.00025768448
416	Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets	2000	VLDB	0.00023773968
673	Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases	2003	VLDB	0.00018325667
1,207	RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries	2005	SIGMOD	0.0001327437
2,249	Rank-aware Query Optimization	2004	SIGMOD	9.1956569e-05
3,597	Graph-Based Synopses for Relational Selectivity Estimation	2006	SIGMOD	6.9337747e-05

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