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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 algorithms receive a stream of elements, with possible repetitions, and return the number of distinct elements in the stream. Such algorithms seek to minimize the required memory and CPU resource consumption at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Reuven Cohen , Yuval Nezri

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

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

Machine learning models have demonstrated substantial performance enhancements over non-learned alternatives in various fundamental data management operations, including indexing (locating items in an array), cardinality estimation…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Sepanta Zeighami , Cyrus Shahabi

Estimating cardinality, i.e., the number of distinct elements, of a data stream is a fundamental problem in areas like databases, computer networks, and information retrieval. This study delves into a broader scenario where each element…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yiyan Qi , Rundong Li , Pinghui Wang , Yufang Sun , Rui Xing

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

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

We propose an advancement in cardinality estimation by augmenting autoregressive models with a traditional grid structure. The novel hybrid estimator addresses the limitations of autoregressive models by creating a smaller representation of…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Damjan Gjurovski , Angjela Davitkova , Sebastian Michel

Cardinality estimation - calculating the number of distinct elements in a stream - is a longstanding problem with applications from networking to bioinformatics. HyperLogLog (HLL), the prevailing standard, has a well-known error spike in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Brian Bushnell

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

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

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

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

In recent years, machine learning-based cardinality estimation methods are replacing traditional methods. This change is expected to contribute to one of the most important applications of cardinality estimation, the query optimizer, to…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Ryuichi Ito , Yuya Sasaki , Chuan Xiao , Makoto Onizuka

Despite decades of research, cardinality estimation remains the optimizer's Achilles heel, with industrial-strength systems exhibiting a systemic tendency toward underestimation. At cloud scale, this is a severe production vulnerability: in…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mihail Stoian , Tiemo Bang , Hangdong Zhao , Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez , Yuanyuan Tian , Andreas Kipf

This work presents new cardinality estimation methods for data sets recorded by HyperLogLog sketches. A simple derivation of the original estimator was found, that also gives insight how to correct its deficiencies. The result is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Otmar Ertl

We construct neural network regression models to predict key metrics of complexity for Gr\"obner bases of binomial ideals. This work illustrates why predictions with neural networks from Gr\"obner computations are not a straightforward…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Shahrzad Jamshidi , Eric Kang , Sonja Petrović

Cost and cardinality estimation is vital to query optimizer, which can guide the plan selection. However traditional empirical cost and cardinality estimation techniques cannot provide high-quality estimation, because they cannot capture…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Ji Sun , Guoliang Li

High-dimensional data has become ubiquitous across the sciences but presents computational and statistical challenges. A common approach to addressing these challenges is through sparsity. In this paper, we introduce a new concept of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ali Mohades , Johannes Lederer