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Joins on Samples: A Theoretical Guide for Practitioners

Summary: Provides a theoretical guide to sample-based join AQP, separating output cardinality from estimator variance and proving variance lower bounds. A hybrid stratified/universe/Bernoulli scheme is constant-factor optimal, with a decentralized implementation for distributed systems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h843370efc39377ef
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
5.9764044e-05
Overall Rank
5,829 | 60.83%
DOI
10.14778/3372716.3372726
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BibTeX Citation

@article{huang_vldb20,
        title = {{Joins on Samples: A Theoretical Guide for Practitioners}},
        author = {Huang, Dawei and Yoon, Dong Young and Pettie, Seth and Mozafari, Barzan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {4},
        pages = {547--560},
        doi = {10.14778/3372716.3372726},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3372716.3372726},
        year = {2020}
}

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9,426 Towards Observability for Production Machine Learning Pipelines 2022 VLDB 5.1779092e-05
10,414 Accelerating Approximate Analytical Join Queries over Unstructured Data with Statistical Guarantees 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
9 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00076265429
57 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.00040095727
85 Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 0.00035876108
135 Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029858107
138 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029618887
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
749 Join Size Estimation Subject to Filter Conditions 2015 VLDB 0.00014261044
772 VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing 2018 SIGMOD 0.0001409096
795 Random Sampling over Joins Revisited 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013934719
841 Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters 2016 SIGMOD 0.00013543
843 Processing Complex Aggregate Queries over Data Streams 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013534623
930 Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013009255
947 Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00012920489
1,021 Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs 2011 VLDB 0.00012437619
1,155 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011777046
1,182 ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering 2000 VLDB 0.00011615497
1,246 Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data 2012 VLDB 0.000113499
1,258 Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011308863
1,428 Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems 2014 SIGMOD 0.0001069161
1,678 Two-Level Sampling for Join Size Estimation 2017 SIGMOD 9.9056116e-05
1,820 A Scalable Hash Ripple Join Algorithm 2002 SIGMOD 9.5651265e-05
1,826 Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation 2004 SIGMOD 9.5535288e-05
1,916 The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing 2014 SIGMOD 9.3822742e-05
2,028 Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time 2017 SIGMOD 9.1584244e-05
2,097 Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch 2015 VLDB 9.0525341e-05
2,354 Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries 2008 VLDB 8.5872598e-05
2,873 SnappyData: A Unified Cluster for Streaming, Transactions, and Interactive Analytics 2017 CIDR 7.9190136e-05
2,881 Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation 2018 SIGMOD 7.9114212e-05
3,085 Continuous Sampling for Online Aggregation Over Multiple Queries 2010 SIGMOD 7.6607519e-05
3,213 Turbo-Charging Estimate Convergence in DBO 2009 VLDB 7.5304969e-05
3,341 I've Seen "Enough": Incrementally Improving Visualizations to Support Rapid Decision Making 2017 VLDB 7.4028264e-05
3,859 Is Min-Wise Hashing Optimal for Summarizing Set Intersection? 2014 PODS 6.9644179e-05
3,872 A Bi-Level Bernoulli Scheme for Database Sampling 2004 SIGMOD 6.9512121e-05
4,218 A Disk-Based Join With Probabilistic Guarantees* 2005 SIGMOD 6.7242128e-05
5,310 CliffGuard: A Principled Framework for Finding Robust Database Designs 2015 SIGMOD 6.184026e-05
6,002 Approximate Query Engines: Commercial Challenges and Research Opportunities 2017 SIGMOD 5.9149725e-05
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