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Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters

Summary: Quickr lazily injects samplers into optimized query plans, approximating complex ad-hoc queries without precomputed samples. Its universe sampler supports multi-input joins, while accuracy analysis preserves groups and bounds aggregates; TPC-DS achieves median 2× resource reduction at cluster scale. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 21 2026)

Paper ID
h7ab7605bf38c4c1d
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2016
Pagerank
0.00013543
Overall Rank
841 | 94.35%
DOI
10.1145/2882903.2882940

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kandula_sigmod16,
        title = {{Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters}},
        author = {Kandula, Srikanth and Shanbhag, Anil and Vitorovic, Aleksandar and Olma, Matthaios and Grandl, Robert and Chaudhuri, Surajit and Ding, Bolin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2882940},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2882940},
        year = {2016}
}

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5,877 BlinkML: Efficient Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Probabilistic Guarantees 2019 SIGMOD 5.9599042e-05
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8,336 LAQy: Efficient and Reusable Query Approximations via Lazy Sampling 2023 SIGMOD 5.3508072e-05
8,367 Probabilistic Database Summarization for Interactive Data Exploration 2017 VLDB 5.344711e-05
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8,851 Data Driven Approximation with Bounded Resources 2017 VLDB 5.2634608e-05
8,953 Practical Dynamic Extension for Sampling Indexes 2023 SIGMOD 5.2517412e-05
9,426 Towards Observability for Production Machine Learning Pipelines 2022 VLDB 5.1779092e-05
9,583 A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation 2023 SIGMOD 5.154741e-05
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10,021 The Data Interaction Game 2018 SIGMOD 5.0935279e-05
10,317 AB-tree: Index for Concurrent Random Sampling and Updates 2022 VLDB 5.0363234e-05
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152 Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System 2003 CIDR 0.00028657752
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