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Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems

Summary: Sampling-based AQP for large-scale analytics; error bars often fail on real workloads. Fast diagnostics of error-estimation failures and a pipeline that yields approximate answers with reliable bootstrap-based error bars at interactive speeds. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h25a21afc71b72c19
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00010659454
Overall Rank
1,435 | 90.39%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2593667

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{agarwal_sigmod14,
        title = {{Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems}},
        author = {Agarwal, Sameer and Milner, Henry and Kleiner, Ariel and Talwalkar, Ameet and Jordan, Michael and Madden, Samuel and Mozafari, Barzan and Stoica, Ion},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2593667},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2593667},
        year = {2014}
}

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841 Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters 2016 SIGMOD 0.00013503124
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1,874 G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data 2015 SIGMOD 9.4470874e-05
1,924 The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing 2014 SIGMOD 9.3535088e-05
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6,232 iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP 2016 SIGMOD 5.8255726e-05
6,964 Querying Big Data by Accessing Small Data 2015 PODS 5.617412e-05
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8,514 THEMIS: Fairness in Federated Stream Processing under Overload 2016 SIGMOD 5.311399e-05
8,790 One Size Does Not Fit All: A Bandit-Based Sampler Combination Framework with Theoretical Guarantees 2022 SIGMOD 5.2633515e-05
8,894 Stale View Cleaning: Getting Fresh Answers from Stale Materialized Views 2015 VLDB 5.2415191e-05
9,574 Controlled Intentional Degradation in Analytical Video Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.1428165e-05
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