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Cost-based query optimization remains a critical task in relational databases even after decades of research and industrial development. Query optimizers rely on a large range of statistical synopses -- including attribute-level histograms…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Yesdaulet Izenov , Asoke Datta , Florin Rusu , Jun Hyung Shin

Join ordering is a key factor in query performance, yet traditional cost-based optimizers often produce sub-optimal plans due to inaccurate cardinality estimates in multi-predicate, multi-join queries. Existing alternatives such as…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-26 David Justen , Matthias Boehm

This paper presents new methods to estimate the cardinalities of data sets recorded by HyperLogLog sketches. A theoretically motivated extension to the original estimator is presented that eliminates the bias for small and large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Otmar Ertl

Cardinality sketches are compact data structures that efficiently estimate the number of distinct elements across multiple queries while minimizing storage, communication, and computational costs. However, recent research has shown that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Edith Cohen , Mihir Singhal , Uri Stemmer

In this work, we address the problem of cardinality estimation for similarity search in high-dimensional spaces. Our goal is to design a framework that is lightweight, easy to construct, and capable of providing accurate estimates with…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhonghan Chen , Qintian Guo , Ruiyuan Zhang , Xiaofang Zhou

Query optimizer is at the heart of the database systems. Cost-based optimizer studied in this paper is adopted in almost all current database systems. A cost-based optimizer introduces a plan enumeration algorithm to find a (sub)plan, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Hai Lan , Zhifeng Bao , Yuwei Peng

Estimating the cardinality of the output of a query is a fundamental problem in database query processing. In this article, we overview a recently published contribution that casts the cardinality estimation problem as linear optimization…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Vasileios Nakos , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

Deep Learning (DL) has achieved great success in many real applications. Despite its success, there are some main problems when deploying advanced DL models in database systems, such as hyper-parameters tuning, the risk of overfitting, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Kangfei Zhao , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Zongyan He , Hao Zhang

This paper considers the problem of cardinality estimation in data stream applications. We present a statistical analysis of probabilistic counting algorithms, focusing on two techniques that use pseudo-random variates to form…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-20 Peter Clifford , Ioana A. Cosma

Cardinality estimation (CardEst) is an essential component in query optimizers and a fundamental problem in DBMS. A desired CardEst method should attain good algorithm performance, be stable to varied data settings, and be friendly to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Ziniu Wu , Amir Shaikhha , Rong Zhu , Kai Zeng , Yuxing Han , Jingren Zhou

Cardinality estimation (CardEst), a central component of the query optimizer, plays a significant role in generating high-quality query plans in DBMS. The CardEst problem has been extensively studied in the last several decades, using both…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Rong Zhu , Tianjing Zeng , Andreas Pfadler , Wei Chen , Bolin Ding , Jingren Zhou

A memory-efficient framework is described for the cardinality-constrained structured data-fitting problem. Dual-based atom-identification rules are proposed that reveal the structure of the optimal primal solution from near-optimal dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Zhenan Fan , Huang Fang , Michael P. Friedlander

Recent work has demonstrated the catastrophic effects of poor cardinality estimates on query processing time. In particular, underestimating query cardinality can result in overly optimistic query plans which take orders of magnitude longer…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Kyle Deeds , Dan Suciu , Magda Balazinska , Walter Cai

Sketch-based streaming algorithms allow efficient processing of big data. These algorithms use small fixed-size storage to store a summary ("sketch") of the input data, and use probabilistic algorithms to estimate the desired quantity.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Reuven Cohen , Liran Katzir , Aviv Yehezkel

Flow cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of distinct elements in a data flow, often with a stringent memory constraint. It has wide applications in network traffic measurement and in database systems. The virtual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Zeyu Zhou

Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the size of the output of a query, without actually evaluating the query. The cardinality estimator is a critical piece of a query optimizer, and is often the main culprit when the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Haozhe Zhang , Christoph Mayer , Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

The amount of data coming from different sources such as IoT-sensors, social networks, cellular networks, has increased exponentially during the last few years. Probabilistic Data Structures (PDS) are efficient alternatives to deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Remy Scholler , Jean-Francois Couchot , Oumaima Alaoui-Ismaili , Denis Renaud , Eric Ballot

Kernel density estimation is a well known method involving a smoothing parameter (the bandwidth) that needs to be tuned by the user. Although this method has been widely used the bandwidth selection remains a challenging issue in terms of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Suzanne Varet , Claire Lacour , Pascal Massart , Vincent Rivoirard

Query optimizers rely on accurate cardinality estimates to produce good execution plans. Despite decades of research, existing cardinality estimators are inaccurate for complex queries, due to making lossy modeling assumptions and not…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Zongheng Yang , Amog Kamsetty , Sifei Luan , Eric Liang , Yan Duan , Xi Chen , Ion Stoica

Previous approaches to learned cardinality estimation have focused on improving average estimation error, but not all estimates matter equally. Since learned models inevitably make mistakes, the goal should be to improve the estimates that…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Parimarjan Negi , Ryan Marcus , Andreas Kipf , Hongzi Mao , Nesime Tatbul , Tim Kraska , Mohammad Alizadeh