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Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries

Summary: Equi-depth multi-dimensional histograms for estimating selectivity of multi-attribute queries. Proposes a practical two-dimensional algorithm extendable to higher dimensions, a compact in-memory histogram structure, two estimation schemes, and a low-cost sampling method; experiments confirm accuracy and efficiency gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h6107e5cd35b0ac92
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1988
Pagerank
0.00031291457
Overall Rank
119 | 99.21%
DOI
10.1145/50202.50205

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{muralikrishna_sigmod88,
        title = {{Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries}},
        author = {Muralikrishna, M. and DeWitt, David J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '88},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/50202.50205},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/50202.50205},
        year = {1988}
}

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37 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00047654188
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254 The History of Histograms (abridged) 2003 VLDB 0.00022999992
259 An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems 1998 PODS 0.00022881075
285 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022143946
287 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022060616
372 STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram 2001 SIGMOD 0.00019768921
374 Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial 2001 VLDB 0.00019698889
457 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00017915659
568 Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00016221103
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785 A One-Pass Algorithm for Accurately Estimating Quantiles for Disk-Resident Data 1997 VLDB 0.0001399349
806 Universality of Serial Histograms 1993 VLDB 0.00013752086
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1,064 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00012181459
1,143 Beyond Uniformity and Independence : Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension 1994 PODS 0.00011810737
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2,987 Accurate Summary-based Cardinality Estimation Through the Lens of Cardinality Estimation Graphs 2022 VLDB 7.767043e-05
2,994 Optimizing Boolean Expressions in Object Bases 1992 VLDB 7.756091e-05
3,371 Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions 2004 SIGMOD 7.3493132e-05
3,653 Optimal Histograms for Hierarchical Range Queries (Extended Abstract) 2000 PODS 7.1149642e-05
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4,480 DigitHist: a Histogram-Based Data Summary with Tight Error Bounds 2017 VLDB 6.566036e-05
4,563 Random Sampling from Pseudo-Ranked B+ Trees 1992 VLDB 6.5201574e-05
4,668 Answering Top-k Queries with Multi-Dimensional Selections: The Ranking Cube Approach 2006 VLDB 6.4622135e-05
5,031 Fast Algorithms For Hierarchical Range Histogram Construction 2002 PODS 6.2950911e-05
5,223 Exact Cardinality Query Optimization with Bounded Execution Cost 2019 SIGMOD 6.210331e-05
6,183 Modeling skewed distributions using multifractals and the '80-20 law' 1996 VLDB 5.8417594e-05
7,342 Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems 2003 VLDB 5.5329816e-05
7,512 Synopses for Query Optimization: A Space-Complexity Perspective 2004 PODS 5.490671e-05
9,422 Optimality and Scalability in Lattice Histogram Construction 2009 VLDB 5.1672232e-05
9,859 Hierarchically Organized Skew-Tolerant Histograms for Geographic Data Objects 2010 SIGMOD 5.1064323e-05
9,952 Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Search on High-Dimensional Data Objects: The Impact of Reference Objects 2025 VLDB 5.0910746e-05
10,094 SPACE: Cardinality Estimation for Path Queries Using Cardinality-Aware Sequence-based Learning 2025 SIGMOD 5.068372e-05
13,178 Searching on the Secondary Structure of Protein Sequences 2002 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0023948467
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0019892478
8 The K-D-B-Tree: A Search Structure for Large Multidimensional Dynamic Indexes 1981 SIGMOD 0.00081207565
36 Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition 1984 SIGMOD 0.00047770864
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