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PODS
2010
ACM
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Understanding cardinality estimation using entropy maximization
Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...
Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu
DBPL
2009
Springer
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14 years 7 months ago
General Database Statistics Using Entropy Maximization
Abstract. We propose a framework in which query sizes can be estimated from arbitrary statistical assertions on the data. In its most general form, a statistical assertion states t...
Raghav Kaushik, Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu