CASCON 2025
Mon 10 - Thu 13 November 2025
Tue 11 Nov 2025 10:30 - 11:00 at Room 5 - 2015-MIP & TP:59-105: Databases

Database query optimizers benefit greatly from accurate cardinality estimation; however, this is hard to achieve on tables with correlated and/or skewed columns. We present a novel approach using neural networks to learn and approximate selectivity functions that take a bounded range on each column as input, effectively estimating selectivities for all relational operators. Experimental results with a simplified prototype show a significant improvement over state-of-the-art cardinality estimators on constructed datasets in terms of accuracy, efficiency, and amount of user input required.

Tue 11 Nov

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10:30 - 12:00
2015-MIP & TP:59-105: Databases74 Technical Papers / Most Influential Paper at Room 5
10:30
30m
Paper
Cardinality estimation using neural networks
Most Influential Paper
Henry Liu University of Waterloo, Mingbin Xu York University, Ziting Yu University of Waterloo, Vincent Corvinelli IBM Canada, Calisto Zuzarte IBM
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11:00
30m
Talk
Semantic Relational Types of SQL Queries and Applications to AI Agent Tool Selection
74 Technical Papers
Ken Pu Ontario Tech University, Limin Ma Ontario Tech University, Ying Zhu Ontario Tech University, Bohdan Synytskyi Ontario Tech University
11:30
30m
Talk
Jackpine3D: a benchmark for evaluating 3D spatial database features
74 Technical Papers
Mohammadmasoud Shabanijou University of New Brunswick, Zhuliang Jia University of New Brunswick, Suprio Ray University of New Brunswick, Rongxing Lu Queen’s University, Pulei Xiong National Research Council (NRC), Canada