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Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates

Summary: Proposes a systematic taxonomy of histograms for range-predicate selectivity estimation, unifying prior types and enabling novel design combinations. Demonstrates sampling to reduce histogram construction cost and empirically evaluates types on range queries to identify the best performers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h59bad86d8e781ff0
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.00047731453
Overall Rank
37 | 99.76%
DOI
10.1145/233269.233342

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{poosala_sigmod96,
        title = {{Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates}},
        author = {Poosala, Viswanath and Ioannidis, Yannis E. and Haas, Peter J. and Shekita, Eugene J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/233269.233342},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.233342},
        year = {1996}
}

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