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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

Cardinality estimation (CardEst) plays a significant role in generating high-quality query plans for a query optimizer in DBMS. In the last decade, an increasing number of advanced CardEst methods (especially ML-based) have been proposed…

Relational databases are wildly adopted in RDF (Resource Description Framework) data management. For efficient SPARQL query evaluation, the legacy query optimizer needs reconsiderations. One vital problem is how to tackle the suboptimal…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Lei Gai , Wei Chen , Tengjiao Wang

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,…

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

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 one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in query optimization. Neither classical nor learning-based methods yield satisfactory performance when estimating the cardinality of the join queries. They…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Ziniu Wu , Parimarjan Negi , Mohammad Alizadeh , Tim Kraska , Samuel Madden

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

Despite of decades of work, query optimizers still make mistakes on "difficult" queries because of bad cardinality estimates, often due to the interaction of multiple predicates and correlations in the data. In this paper, we propose a…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Wentao Wu , Jeffrey F. Naughton , Harneet Singh

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

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

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

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

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

Unreliable cardinality estimation remains a critical performance bottleneck in database management systems (DBMSs). Adaptive Query Processing (AQP) strategies address this limitation by providing a more robust query execution mechanism.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pei Mu , Anderson Chaves Carniel , Antonio Barbalace , Amir Shaikhha

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

In query optimisation accurate cardinality estimation is essential for finding optimal query plans. It is especially challenging for RDF due to the lack of explicit schema and the excessive occurrence of joins in RDF queries. Existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Xin Wang , Eugene Siow , Aastha Madaan , Thanassis Tiropanis

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

Query re-optimization is an adaptive query processing technique that re-invokes the optimizer at certain points in query execution. The goal is to dynamically correct the cardinality estimation errors using the statistics collected at…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Junyi Zhao , Huanchen Zhang , Yihan Gao

Cardinality estimation is a fundamental task in database management systems, aiming to predict query results accurately without executing the queries. However, existing techniques either achieve low estimation accuracy or incur high…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yaoyu Zhu , Jintao Zhang , Guoliang Li , Jianhua Feng
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