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SIGMOD
1996
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates
Many commercial database systems maintain histograms to summarize the contents of relations and permit efficient estimation of query result sizes and access plan costs. Although s...
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. H...
WAIM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expression with Predicates by Histograms
Selectivity estimation of path expressions in querying XML data plays an important role in query optimization. A path expression may contain multiple branches with predicates, each...
Yu Wang, Haixun Wang, Xiaofeng Meng, Shan Wang
BTW
2009
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
A Bayesian Approach to Estimating the Selectivity of Conjunctive Predicates
: Cost-based optimizers in relational databases make use of data statistics to estimate intermediate result cardinalities. Those cardinalities are needed to estimate access plan co...
M. Heimel, Volker Markl, Keshava Murthy
VLDB
2005
ACM
118views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for Fuzzy String Predicates in Large Data Sets
Many database applications have the emerging need to support fuzzy queries that ask for strings that are similar to a given string, such as “name similar to smith” and “tele...
Liang Jin, Chen Li
DKE
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Error minimization in approximate range aggregates
Histogram techniques have been used in many commercial database management systems to estimate a query result size. Recently, it has been shown that they are very effective to su...
Xuemin Lin, Qing Zhang, Yidong Yuan, Qing Liu