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most citedALECE: An Attention-based Learned Cardinality Estimator for SPJ Queries on Dynamic Workloads (Extended)

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cs.DB2026

SEMA-SQL: Beyond Traditional Relational Querying with Large Language Models

Yin Lin, Tianjing Zeng, Zhongjun Ding +4

Relational databases excel at structured data analysis, but real-world queries increasingly require capabilities beyond standard SQL, such as semantically matching entities across…

cs.DB2026

Learned Query Optimizer in Alibaba MaxCompute: Challenges, Analysis, and Solutions

Lianggui Weng, Dandan Liu, Wenzhuang Zhu +5

Existing learned query optimizers remain ill-suited to modern distributed, multi-tenant data warehouses due to idealized modeling assumptions and design choices. Using Alibaba's Ma…

cs.DB2025

BridgeScope: A Universal Toolkit for Bridging Large Language Models and Databases

Lianggui Weng, Dandan Liu, Rong Zhu +2

As large language models (LLMs) demonstrate increasingly powerful reasoning and orchestration capabilities, LLM-based agents are rapidly proliferating for complex data-related task…

cs.DB2025

AmbiSQL: Interactive Ambiguity Detection and Resolution for Text-to-SQL

Zhongjun Ding, Yin Lin, Tianjing Zeng +3

Text-to-SQL systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, providing substantial value for non-expert users. While large language models (LLMs) show promising resul…

cs.DB2025

Delta: A Learned Mixed Cost-based Query Optimization Framework

Jiazhen Peng, Zheng Qu, Xiaoye Miao +1

Query optimizer is a crucial module for database management systems. Existing optimizers exhibit two flawed paradigms: (1) cost-based optimizers use dynamic programming with cost m…

cs.DB2024★ 12 cited

PRICE: A Pretrained Model for Cross-Database Cardinality Estimation

Tianjing Zeng, Junwei Lan, Jiahong Ma +7

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…

cs.DB2023★ 43 cited

ALECE: An Attention-based Learned Cardinality Estimator for SPJ Queries on Dynamic Workloads (Extended)

Pengfei Li, Wenqing Wei, Rong Zhu +3

For efficient query processing, DBMS query optimizers have for decades relied on delicate cardinality estimation methods. In this work, we propose an Attention-based LEarned Cardin…

cs.DB2023★ 1 cited

DILI: A Distribution-Driven Learned Index (Extended version)

Pengfei Li, Hua Lu, Rong Zhu +3

Targeting in-memory one-dimensional search keys, we propose a novel DIstribution-driven Learned Index tree (DILI), where a concise and computation-efficient linear regression model…

cs.DB2023★ 1 cited

Lero: A Learning-to-Rank Query Optimizer

Rong Zhu, Wei Chen, Bolin Ding +4

A recent line of works apply machine learning techniques to assist or rebuild cost-based query optimizers in DBMS. While exhibiting superiority in some benchmarks, their deficienci…

cs.DB2021★ 2 cited

Baihe: SysML Framework for AI-driven Databases

Andreas Pfadler, Rong Zhu, Wei Chen +4

We present Baihe, a SysML Framework for AI-driven Databases. Using Baihe, an existing relational database system may be retrofitted to use learned components for query optimization…

cs.DB2021★ 1 cited

Glue: Adaptively Merging Single Table Cardinality to Estimate Join Query Size

Rong Zhu, Tianjing Zeng, Andreas Pfadler +3

Cardinality estimation (CardEst), a central component of the query optimizer, plays a significant role in generating high-quality query plans in DBMS. The CardEst problem has been…

cs.DB2021★ 17 cited

Cardinality Estimation in DBMS: A Comprehensive Benchmark Evaluation

Yuxing Han, Ziniu Wu, Peizhi Wu +11

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…

cs.DB2021★ 6 cited

A Unified Transferable Model for ML-Enhanced DBMS

Ziniu Wu, Pei Yu, Peilun Yang +6

Recently, the database management system (DBMS) community has witnessed the power of machine learning (ML) solutions for DBMS tasks. Despite their promising performance, these exis…

cs.DB2020★ 16 cited

FLAT: Fast, Lightweight and Accurate Method for Cardinality Estimation

Rong Zhu, Ziniu Wu, Yuxing Han +5

Query optimizers rely on accurate cardinality estimation (CardEst) to produce good execution plans. The core problem of CardEst is how to model the rich joint distribution of attri…