Estimating Cardinalities with Deep Sketches

17 Apr 2019  ·  Andreas Kipf, Dimitri Vorona, Jonas Müller, Thomas Kipf, Bernhard Radke, Viktor Leis, Peter Boncz, Thomas Neumann, Alfons Kemper ·

We introduce Deep Sketches, which are compact models of databases that allow us to estimate the result sizes of SQL queries. Deep Sketches are powered by a new deep learning approach to cardinality estimation that can capture correlations between columns, even across tables. Our demonstration allows users to define such sketches on the TPC-H and IMDb datasets, monitor the training process, and run ad-hoc queries against trained sketches. We also estimate query cardinalities with HyPer and PostgreSQL to visualize the gains over traditional cardinality estimators.

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