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Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation

Summary: Bifocal sampling classifies tuples into sparse and dense groups and uses estimators tailored to cross-group joinings. With a sample size O(sqrt(n) log n), it achieves high-probability constant-factor accuracy for Omega(n/log n) joins, skew-resistant. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h0d04548e12bedc05
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.00014246313
Overall Rank
750 | 94.98%
DOI
10.1145/233269.233340

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ganguly_sigmod96,
        title = {{Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation}},
        author = {Ganguly, Sumit and Gibbons, Phillip B. and Matias, Yossi and Silberschatz, Avi},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/233269.233340},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.233340},
        year = {1996}
}

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57 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.0003999751
138 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029532435
374 Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial 2001 VLDB 0.00019698889
432 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00018400309
435 Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser 2002 SIGMOD 0.00018277436
689 Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling 2017 CIDR 0.00014725904
752 Join Size Estimation Subject to Filter Conditions 2015 VLDB 0.00014234789
793 Random Sampling over Joins Revisited 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013903938
874 Spectral Bloom Filters 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013298839
1,329 Augmented Sketch: Faster and More Accurate Stream Processing 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011013041
1,681 Two-Level Sampling for Join Size Estimation 2017 SIGMOD 9.8821344e-05
1,754 Combining Histograms and Parametric Curve Fitting for Feedback-Driven Query Result-Size Estimation 1999 VLDB 9.7111856e-05
2,228 Estimating Join Selectivities using Bandwidth-Optimized Kernel Density Models 2017 VLDB 8.7912743e-05
2,335 Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples 2004 SIGMOD 8.6050778e-05
3,093 Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries 2021 SIGMOD 7.6378811e-05
3,858 Graph-Based Synopses for Relational Selectivity Estimation 2006 SIGMOD 6.9543709e-05
3,884 A Bi-Level Bernoulli Scheme for Database Sampling 2004 SIGMOD 6.9285249e-05
4,236 A Disk-Based Join With Probabilistic Guarantees* 2005 SIGMOD 6.7028998e-05
4,981 Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing 2011 VLDB 6.3161219e-05
6,703 Query Sampling in DB2 Universal Database 2004 SIGMOD 5.687355e-05
6,988 Sampling Dirty Data for Matching Attributes 2010 SIGMOD 5.6110503e-05
7,387 Weighted Distinct Sampling: Cardinality Estimation for SPJ Queries 2021 SIGMOD 5.5212177e-05
8,056 VecFlow: A High-Performance Vector Data Management System for Filtered-Search on GPUs 2026 SIGMOD 5.3830983e-05
8,060 JoinSketch: A Sketch Algorithm for Accurate and Unbiased Inner-Product Estimation 2023 SIGMOD 5.382134e-05
8,346 Containment Join Size Estimation: Models and Methods 2003 SIGMOD 5.3339321e-05
8,574 Panakos: Chasing the Tails for Multidimensional Data Streams 2023 VLDB 5.297131e-05
10,699 CorrBound: Cardinality Estimation Accounting for Inter- and Intra-relation Correlations 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,591 Enabling Adaptive Sampling for Intra-Window Join: Simultaneously Optimizing Quantity and Quality 2024 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-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
58 Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions 1988 PODS 0.00039922419
78 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00036725074
79 Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling 1990 SIGMOD 0.00036394222
183 Processing Aggregate Relational Queries with Hard Time Constraints 1989 SIGMOD 0.00026316699
346 Sequential Sampling Procedures For Query Size Estimation 1992 SIGMOD 0.00020265363
492 Error-Constrained COUNT Query Evaluation in Relational Databases 1991 SIGMOD 0.00017359343
1,012 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00012489386
1,206 Fixed-Precision Estimation of Join Selectivity 1993 PODS 0.00011510881
1,423 Estimating the Size of Generalized Transitive Closures 1989 VLDB 0.00010696781
1,469 On the Relative Cost of Sampling for Join Selectivity Estimation 1994 PODS 0.00010533259
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