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Estimating Alphanumeric Selectivity in the Presence of Wildcards

Summary: First study of alphanumeric selectivity with wildcards, using a suffix-tree-based structure built from a statistics pass over the database. Suffix-tree-based models guide selectivity estimation for LIKE predicates; empirical results on TPC‑D show five promising techniques. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h340c98db7908ec58
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.0001174542
Overall Rank
1,163 | 92.19%
DOI
10.1145/233269.233341

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{krishnan_sigmod96,
        title = {{Estimating Alphanumeric Selectivity in the Presence of Wildcards}},
        author = {Krishnan, P. and Vitter, Jeffrey Scott and Iyer, Bala},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/233269.233341},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.233341},
        year = {1996}
}

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8,173 CXHist: An On-line Classification-Based Histogram for XML String Selectivity Estimation 2005 VLDB 5.3824152e-05
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