• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.168-175
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• 2003

Until now, substring selectivities have been estimated by two steps. First step is to build up a count-suffix tree, which has statistical information about substrings, and second step is to estimate substring selectivity using it. However, it's actually impossible to build up a count-suffix tree from biological sequences because their lengths are too long. So, this paper proposes a novel data structure, count q-gram tree, consisting of fixed length substrings. The Count q-gram tree retains the exact counts of all substrings whose lengths are equal to or less than q and this tree is generated in 0(N) time and in site not subject to total length of all sequences, N. This paper also presents an estimation technique, k-MO. k-MO can choose overlapping length of splitted substrings from a query string, and this choice will affect accuracy of selectivity and query processing time. Experiments show k-MO can estimate very accurately.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.141-152
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• 2007

Selectivity estimation has been a crucial component in query optimization in relational databases. While extensive researches have been done on this topic for the predicates of numerical data, only little work has been done for substring predicates. We propose novel suffix tree transform algorithms for this problem. Unlike previous approaches where a full suffix tree is pruned and then an estimation algorithm is employed, we transform a suffix tree into a suffix graph systematically. In our approach, nodes with similar counts are merged while structural information in the original suffix tree is preserved in a controlled manner. We present both an error-bound algorithm and a space-bound algorithm. Experimental results with real life data sets show that our algorithms have lower average relative error than that of the previous works as well as good error distribution characteristics.