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Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling

Summary: Adaptive random sampling is extended to practical selectivity estimation for selects and joins, with tighter bounds on sample size for fixed accuracy. Introduces sanity bounds for highly skewed data or very small results and shows encouraging performance when integrated with a commercial relational DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h362e0db68bf4ab80
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00036476265
Overall Rank
79 | 99.48%
DOI
10.1145/93597.93611

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lipton_sigmod90,
        title = {{Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling}},
        author = {Lipton, Richard J. and Naughton, Jeffrey F. and Schneider, Donovan A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/93597.93611},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.93611},
        year = {1990}
}

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37 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.0004772731
103 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00033884854
138 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029618887
232 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.0002378554
275 Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees 1998 VLDB 0.00022404363
284 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022205848
286 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022112534
309 Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets 2000 VLDB 0.00021376597
346 Sequential Sampling Procedures For Query Size Estimation 1992 SIGMOD 0.00020320726
372 Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial 2001 VLDB 0.0001971778
429 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00018445263
448 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00018121533
454 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00017955913
462 An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator 2020 VLDB 0.00017836105
491 Error-Constrained COUNT Query Evaluation in Relational Databases 1991 SIGMOD 0.0001740646
518 Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? 1998 SIGMOD 0.00016938992
569 Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00016244162
596 Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015782051
688 Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling 2017 CIDR 0.00014749318
746 Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014282427
920 Tradeoffs in Processing Complex Join Queries via Hashing in Multiprocessor Database Machines 1990 VLDB 0.00013075939
1,065 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00012202293
1,125 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00011921893
1,155 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011777046
1,163 Estimating Alphanumeric Selectivity in the Presence of Wildcards 1996 SIGMOD 0.0001174542
1,184 An Instant and Accurate Size Estimation Method for Joins and Selection in a Retrieval-Intensive Environment 1993 SIGMOD 0.00011608071
1,203 Fixed-Precision Estimation of Join Selectivity 1993 PODS 0.00011543634
1,258 Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011308863
1,467 On the Relative Cost of Sampling for Join Selectivity Estimation 1994 PODS 0.00010563809
1,509 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010436933
1,543 Improved Selectivity Estimation by Combining Knowledge from Sampling and Synopses 2018 VLDB 0.00010305662
1,574 Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine 1998 VLDB 0.00010190239
1,578 SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems 1996 VLDB 0.00010182593
1,580 Deep Learning Models for Selectivity Estimation of Multi-Attribute Queries 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010177136
1,605 SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010095581
1,640 Combinatorial Pattern Discovery for Scientific Data: Some Preliminary Results 1994 SIGMOD 0.0001000699
1,800 SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning 2018 VLDB 9.6082185e-05
1,826 Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation 2004 SIGMOD 9.5535288e-05
1,892 CS2: A New Database Synopsis for Query Estimation 2013 SIGMOD 9.4150583e-05
2,164 Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases 1999 SIGMOD 8.9309999e-05
2,518 Learned Cardinality Estimation: A Design Space Exploration and A Comparative Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.3532841e-05
2,672 Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap* 2005 SIGMOD 8.1456115e-05
2,844 FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries 2023 SIGMOD 7.9446987e-05
2,984 Optimizing Boolean Expressions in Object Bases 1992 VLDB 7.780464e-05
3,000 Multiple Join Size Estimation by Virtual Domains (extended abstract) 1993 PODS 7.7657164e-05
3,053 A Unified Deep Model of Learning from both Data and Queries for Cardinality Estimation 2021 SIGMOD 7.7041081e-05
3,092 Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries 2021 SIGMOD 7.6548729e-05
3,362 Exact Cardinality Query Optimization for Optimizer Testing 2009 VLDB 7.3719912e-05
3,563 Astrid: Accurate Selectivity Estimation for String Predicates using Deep Learning 2021 VLDB 7.2023194e-05
4,546 Random Sampling from Pseudo-Ranked B+ Trees 1992 VLDB 6.5406658e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0023943337
36 Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition 1984 SIGMOD 0.00047864281
46 Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach 1983 VLDB 0.00044767144
58 Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions 1988 PODS 0.00040025054
119 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.0003136296
175 Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases 1986 VLDB 0.00026776696
181 Processing Aggregate Relational Queries with Hard Time Constraints 1989 SIGMOD 0.00026384065
424 Estimating Block Transfers and Join Sizes 1983 SIGMOD 0.00018487052
478 Random Sampling from B+ trees 1989 VLDB 0.00017625093
955 Selectivity Estimation and Query Optimization in Large Databases with Highly Skewed Distributions of Column Values 1988 VLDB 0.0001286095
1,011 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00012524973
1,416 Estimating the Size of Generalized Transitive Closures 1989 VLDB 0.00010729775
1,641 A Model of Data Distribution Based on Texture Analysis 1985 SIGMOD 0.00010003599
3,334 Database Evaluation Using Multiple Regression Techniques 1984 SIGMOD 7.4120364e-05
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