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Cardinality estimation is a fundamental task in database systems and plays a critical role in query optimization. Despite significant advances in learning-based cardinality estimation methods, most existing approaches remain difficult to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xianghong Xu , Rong Kang , Xiao He , Lei Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Tieying Zhang

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

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

One of the major challenges in enterprise data analysis is the task of finding joinable tables that are conceptually related and provide meaningful insights. Traditionally, joinable tables have been discovered through a search for similar…

Accurate cardinality estimates are a key ingredient to achieve optimal query plans. For RDF engines, specifically under common knowledge graph processing workloads, the lack of schema, correlated predicates, and various types of queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Angjela Davitkova , Damjan Gjurovski , Sebastian Michel

Accurate cardinality estimation of substring queries, which are commonly expressed using the SQL LIKE predicate, is crucial for query optimization in database systems. While both rule-based methods and machine learning-based methods have…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yirui Zhan , Wen Nie , Jun Gao

A common approach to data analysis involves understanding and manipulating succinct representations of data. In earlier work, we put forward a succinct representation system for relational data called factorised databases and reported on…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Nurzhan Bakibayev , Tomáš Kočiský , Dan Olteanu , Jakub Závodný

With the increasing rate of data generated by critical systems, estimating functions on streaming data has become essential. This demand has driven numerous advancements in algorithms designed to efficiently query and analyze one or more…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Mike Heddes , Igor Nunes , Tony Givargis , Alex Nicolau

SQL queries, with the AND, OR, and NOT operators, constitute a broad class of highly used queries. Thus, their cardinality estimation is important for query optimization. In addition, a query planner requires the set-theoretic cardinality…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Rojeh Hayek , Oded Shmueli

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

Finding a good query plan is key to the optimization of query runtime. This holds in particular for cost-based federation engines, which make use of cardinality estimations to achieve this goal. A number of studies compare SPARQL federation…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Umair Qudus , Muhammad Saleem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Young-koo Lee

Uniform sampling and approximate counting are fundamental primitives for modern database applications, ranging from query optimization to approximate query processing. While recent breakthroughs have established optimal sampling and…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xiao Hu , Jinchao Huang

Cardinality Estimation over Knowledge Graphs (KG) is crucial for query optimization, yet remains a challenging task due to the semi-structured nature and complex correlations of typical Knowledge Graphs. In this work, we propose GNCE, a…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tim Schwabe , Maribel Acosta

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

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 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

Multimodal sentiment analysis remains a challenging task due to the inherent heterogeneity across modalities. Such heterogeneity often manifests as asynchronous signals, imbalanced information between modalities, and interference from…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yadong Liu , Shangfei Wang

Innovative learning based structures have recently been proposed to tackle index and cardinality estimation tasks, specifically learned indexes and data driven cardinality estimators. These structures exhibit excellent performance in…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yingze Li , Hongzhi Wang , Xianglong Liu

Cost-based query optimizers remain one of the most important components of database management systems for analytic workloads. Though modern optimizers select plans close to optimal performance in the common case, a small number of queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Matthew Perron , Zeyuan Shang , Tim Kraska , Michael Stonebraker

In this work, we study the problem of co-optimize communication, pre-computing, and computation cost in one-round multi-way join evaluation. We propose a multi-way join approach ADJ (Adaptive Distributed Join) for complex join which finds…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Hao Zhang , Miao Qiao , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Hong Cheng