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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) still remains a challenging problem for DBMS. Recent years have witnessed the success of ML-based cardinality estimators in outperforming traditional methods. However, these solutions suffer from poor…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Liangzu Liu , Yiyan Wang , Yinjun Wu , Runze Su , Zhuo Chang , Peizhi Wu , Jianjun Chen , Fuxin Jiang , Rui Shi , Bin Cui , Tieying Zhang

Cardinality estimation is an important part of query optimization in DBMS. We develop a Quantum Cardinality Estimation (QCardEst) approach using Quantum Machine Learning with a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Network. We define a compact encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Tobias Winker , Jinghua Groppe , Sven Groppe

Database Management Systems (DBMSs) process a given query by creating a query plan, which is subsequently executed, to compute the query's result. Deriving an efficient query plan is challenging, and both academia and industry have invested…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jinsheng Ba , Manuel Rigger

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

In this paper we address cardinality estimation problem which is an important subproblem in query optimization. Query optimization is a part of every relational DBMS responsible for finding the best way of the execution for the given query.…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Oleg Ivanov , Sergey Bartunov

Query optimizers rely on accurate cardinality estimation (CardEst) to produce good execution plans. The core problem of CardEst is how to model the rich joint distribution of attributes in an accurate and compact manner. Despite decades of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Rong Zhu , Ziniu Wu , Yuxing Han , Kai Zeng , Andreas Pfadler , Zhengping Qian , Jingren Zhou , Bin Cui

Cardinality estimation (CardEst) is a critical aspect of query optimization. Traditionally, it leverages statistics built directly over the data. However, organizational policies (e.g., regulatory compliance) may restrict global data…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Peizhi Wu , Rong Kang , Tieying Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Ryan Marcus , Zachary G. Ives

Cardinality estimation (CardEst) is essential for optimizing query execution plans. Recent ML-based CardEst methods achieve high accuracy but face deployment challenges due to high preparation costs and lack of transferability across…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Tianjing Zeng , Junwei Lan , Jiahong Ma , Wenqing Wei , Rong Zhu , Pengfei Li , Bolin Ding , Defu Lian , Zhewei Wei , Jingren Zhou

Cardinality estimation remains a fundamental challenge in query optimization, often resulting in sub-optimal execution plans and degraded performance. While errors in cardinality estimation are inevitable, existing methods for identifying…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Asoke Datta , Yesdaulet Izenov , Brian Tsan , Abylay Amanbayev , Florin Rusu

Subgraph counting is a fundamental problem in understanding and analyzing graph structured data, yet computationally challenging. This calls for an accurate and efficient algorithm for Subgraph Cardinality Estimation, which is to estimate…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Wonseok Shin , Siwoo Song , Kunsoo Park , Wook-Shin Han

Modern database optimizer relies on cardinality estimator, whose accuracy directly affects the optimizer's ability to choose an optimal execution plan. Recent work on data-driven methods has leveraged probabilistic models to achieve higher…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xiao Yan , Tiezheng Nie , Boyang Fang , Derong Shen , Kou Yue , Yu Ge

Cardinality estimation is a fundamental task in database query processing and optimization. As shown in recent papers, machine learning (ML)-based approaches can deliver more accurate cardinality estimations than traditional approaches.…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Lucas Woltmann , Claudio Hartmann , Dirk Habich , Wolfgang Lehner

Cardinality estimation (CE) plays a crucial role in many database-related tasks such as query generation, cost estimation, and join ordering. Lately, we have witnessed the emergence of numerous learned CE models. However, no single CE model…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jintao Zhang , Chao Zhang , Guoliang Li , Chengliang Chai

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

Cardinality estimation is a fundamental functionality in database systems. Most existing cardinality estimators focus on handling predicates over numeric or categorical data. They have largely omitted an important data type, set-valued…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yufan Sheng , Xin Cao , Kaiqi Zhao , Yixiang Fang , Jianzhong Qi , Wenjie Zhang , Christian S. Jensen

Most query optimizers rely on cardinality estimates to determine optimal execution plans. While traditional databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Db2 utilize many types of synopses -- including histograms, samples, and sketches --…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Asoke Datta , Brian Tsan , Yesdaulet Izenov , Florin Rusu

Cardinality estimation is a fundamental but long unresolved problem in query optimization. Recently, multiple papers from different research groups consistently report that learned models have the potential to replace existing cardinality…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaoying Wang , Changbo Qu , Weiyuan Wu , Jiannan Wang , Qingqing Zhou

Recent work has reemphasized the importance of cardinality estimates for query optimization. While new techniques have continuously improved in accuracy over time, they still generally allow for under-estimates which often lead optimizers…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Kyle Deeds , Dan Suciu , Magda Balazinska

DB engines produce efficient query execution plans by relying on cost models. Practical implementations estimate cardinality of queries using heuristics, with magic numbers tuned to improve average performance on benchmarks. Empirically,…

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