ACM SIGMOD Anthology VLDB dblp.uni-trier.de

Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption.

Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis: Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption. VLDB 1997: 486-495
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/PoosalaI97,
  author    = {Viswanath Poosala and
               Yannis E. Ioannidis},
  editor    = {Matthias Jarke and
               Michael J. Carey and
               Klaus R. Dittrich and
               Frederick H. Lochovsky and
               Pericles Loucopoulos and
               Manfred A. Jeusfeld},
  title     = {Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence
               Assumption},
  booktitle = {VLDB'97, Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, August 25-29, 1997, Athens, Greece},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1997},
  isbn      = {1-55860-470-7},
  pages     = {486-495},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/PoosalaI97.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/97},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
BibTeX

Abstract

The result size of a query that involves multiple attributes from the same relation depends on these attributes' joint data distribution, i.e., the frequencies of all combinations of attribute values. To simplify the estimation of that size, most commercial systems make the attribute value independence assumption and maintain statistics (typically histograms) on individual attributes only. In reality, this assumption is almost always wrong and the resulting estimations tend to be highly inaccurate. In this paper, we propose two main alternatives to effectively approximate (multi-dimensional) joint data distributions. (a) Using a multi-dimensional histogram, (b) Using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) technique from linear algebra. An extensive set of experiments demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches and the benefits of both compared to the independence assumption.

Copyright © 1997 by the VLDB Endowment. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the VLDB copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by the permission of the Very Large Data Base Endowment. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or special permission from the Endowment.


Online Paper

ACM SIGMOD Anthology

CDROM Version: Load the CDROM "Volume 1 Issue 5, VLDB '89-'97" and ... DVD Version: Load ACM SIGMOD Anthology DVD 1" and ... BibTeX

Printed Edition

Matthias Jarke, Michael J. Carey, Klaus R. Dittrich, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Pericles Loucopoulos, Manfred A. Jeusfeld (Eds.): VLDB'97, Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 25-29, 1997, Athens, Greece. Morgan Kaufmann 1997, ISBN 1-55860-470-7
Contents BibTeX

Electronic Edition

From CS Dept., University Trier (Germany)

References

[1]
...
[2]
Stavros Christodoulakis: Implications of Certain Assumptions in Database Performance Evaluation. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 9(2): 163-186(1984) BibTeX
[3]
J. G. Griffiths: An Algorithm for Displaying a Class of Space-filling Curves. Softw., Pract. Exper. 16(5): 403-411(1986) BibTeX
[4]
Yannis E. Ioannidis: Universality of Serial Histograms. VLDB 1993: 256-267 BibTeX
[5]
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Stavros Christodoulakis: Optimal Histograms for Limiting Worst-Case Error Propagation in the Size of Join Results. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 18(4): 709-748(1993) BibTeX
[6]
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Viswanath Poosala: Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation. SIGMOD Conference 1995: 233-244 BibTeX
[7]
H. V. Jagadish: Linear Clustering of Objects with Multiple Atributes. SIGMOD Conference 1990: 332-342 BibTeX
[8]
Ibrahim Kamel, Christos Faloutsos: Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree using Fractals. VLDB 1994: 500-509 BibTeX
[9]
Robert Kooi: The Optimization of Queries in Relational Databases. Ph.D. thesis, Case Western Reserve University 1980
BibTeX
[10]
...
[11]
Richard J. Lipton, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. Schneider: Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling. SIGMOD Conference 1990: 1-11 BibTeX
[12]
M. Muralikrishna, David J. DeWitt: Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries. SIGMOD Conference 1988: 28-36 BibTeX
[13]
B. Muthuswamy, Larry Kerschberg: A Detailed Database Statistics Model for Realtional Query Optimization. ACM Annual Conference - The range of computing: mid-80's perspective 1985: 439-448 BibTeX
[14]
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Charles Connell: Accurate Estimation of the Number of Tuples Satisfying a Condition. SIGMOD Conference 1984: 256-276 BibTeX
[15]
...
[16]
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. Haas, Eugene J. Shekita: Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates. SIGMOD Conference 1996: 294-305 BibTeX
[17]
William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, Brian P. Flannery: Numerical Recipes in C, 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press 1992
Contents BibTeX
[18]
Patricia G. Selinger, Morton M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond A. Lorie, Thomas G. Price: Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System. SIGMOD Conference 1979: 23-34 BibTeX
[19]
Wei Sun, Yibei Ling, Naphtali Rishe, Yi Deng: An Instant and Accurate Estimation Method for Joins and Selection in a Retrieval-Intensive Environment. SIGMOD Conference 1993: 79-88 BibTeX
[20]
George Kingsley Zipf: Human Behaviour and the Principle of Least Effort: an Introduction to Human Ecology. Addison-Wesley 1949
BibTeX

Referenced by

  1. Themistoklis Palpanas: Knowledge Discovery in Data Warehouses. SIGMOD Record 29(3): 88-100(2000)
  2. Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang: Dynamic Maintenance of Wavelet-Based Histograms. VLDB 2000: 101-110
  3. Kaushik Chakrabarti, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastogi, Kyuseok Shim: Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets. VLDB 2000: 111-122
  4. Dimitrios Gunopulos, George Kollios, Vassilis J. Tsotras, Carlotta Domeniconi: Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries over Real Attributes. SIGMOD Conference 2000: 463-474
  5. Viswanath Poosala, Venkatesh Ganti, Yannis E. Ioannidis: Approximate Query Answering using Histograms. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 22(4): 5-14(1999)
  6. H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukrishnan: Mining Deviants in a Time Series Database. VLDB 1999: 102-113
  7. H. V. Jagadish, Olga Kapitskaia, Raymond T. Ng, Divesh Srivastava: Multi-Dimensional Substring Selectivity Estimation. VLDB 1999: 387-398
  8. Yannis E. Ioannidis, Viswanath Poosala: Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query-Answers. VLDB 1999: 174-185
  9. Surajit Chaudhuri, Luis Gravano: Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries. VLDB 1999: 397-410
  10. Viswanath Poosala, Venkatesh Ganti: Fast Approximate Answers to Aggregate Queries on a Data Cube. SSDBM 1999: 24-33
  11. Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang: Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets. SIGMOD Conference 1999: 193-204
  12. Ju-Hong Lee, Deok-Hwan Kim, Chin-Wan Chung: Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information. SIGMOD Conference 1999: 205-214
  13. Swarup Acharya, Viswanath Poosala, Sridhar Ramaswamy: Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases. SIGMOD Conference 1999: 13-24
  14. Ashraf Aboulnaga, Surajit Chaudhuri: Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data. SIGMOD Conference 1999: 181-192
  15. S. Muthukrishnan, Viswanath Poosala, Torsten Suel: On Rectangular Partitionings in Two Dimensions: Algorithms, Complexity, and Applications. ICDT 1999: 236-256
  16. Viswanath Poosala, Venkatesh Ganti: Fast Approximate Query Answering Using Precomputed Statistics. ICDE 1999: 252
  17. Pedro Furtado, Henrique Madeira: Summary Grids: Building Accurate Multidimensional Histograms. DASFAA 1999: 187-194
  18. H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukrishnan, Viswanath Poosala, Kenneth C. Sevcik, Torsten Suel: Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees. VLDB 1998: 275-286
  19. Michael J. Carey, Donald Kossmann: Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine. VLDB 1998: 158-169
  20. Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang: Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation. SIGMOD Conference 1998: 448-459
  21. Surajit Chaudhuri: An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems. PODS 1998: 34-43
  22. Daniel Barbará, William DuMouchel, Christos Faloutsos, Peter J. Haas, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Yannis E. Ioannidis, H. V. Jagadish, Theodore Johnson, Raymond T. Ng, Viswanath Poosala, Kenneth A. Ross, Kenneth C. Sevcik: The New Jersey Data Reduction Report. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 20(4): 3-45(1997)
BibTeX
ACM SIGMOD Anthology - DBLP: [Home | Search: Author, Title | Conferences | Journals]
VLDB Proceedings: Copyright © by VLDB Endowment,
ACM SIGMOD Anthology: Copyright © by ACM (info@acm.org), Corrections: anthology@acm.org
DBLP: Copyright © by Michael Ley (ley@uni-trier.de), last change: Sat May 16 23:46:18 2009