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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

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

Research on learned cardinality estimation has made significant progress in recent years. However, existing methods still face distinct challenges that hinder their practical deployment in production environments. We define these challenges…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Kaixin Zhang , Hongzhi Wang , Ziqi Li , Yabin Lu , Yingze Li , Yu Yan , Yiming Guan

Many techniques have been developed for the cardinality estimation problem in data management systems. In this document, we introduce a framework for cardinality estimation of query patterns over property graph databases, which makes it…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Wilco van Leeuwen , George Fletcher , Nikolay Yakovets

Cardinality estimation is a cornerstone of cost-based optimizers (CBOs), yet real-world workloads often violate the assumptions behind static statistics, degrading decision stability and increasing plan flip rates. We empirically…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ilsun Chang

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

Cardinality estimation is a fundamental component in database systems, crucial for generating efficient execution plans. Despite advancements in learning-based cardinality estimation, existing methods may struggle to simultaneously optimize…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiawei Liu , Ju Fan , Tongyu Liu , Kai Zeng , Jiannan Wang , Quehuan Liu , Tao Ye , Nan Tang

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 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

Cardinality estimation and conjunctive query evaluation are two of the most fundamental problems in database query processing. Recent work proposed, studied, and implemented a robust and practical information-theoretic cardinality…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Hung Q. Ngo , Kirk Pruhs

Cardinality estimation is a critical component and a longstanding challenge in modern data warehouses. ByteHouse, ByteDance's cloud-native engine for extensive data analysis in exabyte-scale environments, serves numerous internal…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yuxing Han , Haoyu Wang , Lixiang Chen , Yifeng Dong , Xing Chen , Benquan Yu , Chengcheng Yang , Weining Qian

Graph pattern cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of embeddings of a query graph in a data graph. This fundamental problem arises, for example, during query planning in subgraph matching algorithms. There are two…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Kyoungmin Kim , Hyeonji Kim , George Fletcher , Wook-Shin Han

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

Clustering a graph means identifying internally dense subgraphs which are only sparsely interconnected. Formalizations of this notion lead to measures that quantify the quality of a clustering and to algorithms that actually find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Robert Görke , Andrea Schumm , Dorothea Wagner

Cardinality estimation is crucial for enabling high query performance in relational databases. Recently learned cardinality estimation models have been proposed to improve accuracy but there is no systematic benchmark or datasets which…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yannis Chronis , Yawen Wang , Yu Gan , Sami Abu-El-Haija , Chelsea Lin , Carsten Binnig , Fatma Özcan

Estimating the cardinality (i.e., the number of answers) of conjunctive queries is particularly difficult in RDF systems: queries over RDF data are navigational and thus tend to involve many joins. We present a new, principled cardinality…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Giorgio Stefanoni , Boris Motik , Egor V. Kostylev

The containment rate of query Q1 in query Q2 over database D is the percentage of Q1's result tuples over D that are also in Q2's result over D. We directly estimate containment rates between pairs of queries over a specific database. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Rojeh Hayek , Oded Shmueli

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 paper, given a user's query set and budget, we aim to use the limited budget to help users assemble a set of datasets that can enrich a base dataset by introducing the maximum number of distinct tuples (i.e., maximizing…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Tingting Wang , Shixun Huang , Zhifeng Bao , J. Shane Culpepper , Volkan Dedeoglu , Reza Arablouei

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