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QCardEst/QCardCorr: Quantum Cardinality Estimation and Correction

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  • Haebom

Author

Tobias Winker, Jinghua Groppe, Sven Groppe

Outline

This paper presents a quantum cardinality estimation (QCardEst) technique using quantum machine learning and hybrid quantum-classical networks. It encodes SQL queries into a compact quantum state that requires only the number of qubits equal to the number of tables contained in the query, enabling the entire query to be processed by a single variational quantum circuit (VQC) on current hardware. Furthermore, we compare several classical postprocessing layers to convert the probability vector output of VQC into a cardinality value, and introduce quantum cardinality correction (QCardCorr), which multiplies the coefficients generated by VQC to improve the classical cardinality estimator. Using QCardCorr, we achieve a 6.37x performance improvement over the standard PostgreSQL optimizer on JOB-light, an 8.66x improvement on STATS, and a 3.47x improvement over MSCN on JOB-light.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We demonstrate that quantum computing can be used to improve the performance of cardinality estimation, a crucial part of database query optimization.
The proposed QCardEst and QCardCorr techniques provide superior performance over existing classical methods.
This suggests that it is possible to design quantum algorithms that operate efficiently even on current quantum computer hardware with a limited number of qubits.
Limitations:
The experimental results are limited to specific datasets (JOB-light, STATS), requiring further research on generalizability.
Further validation is needed to verify the scalability of the proposed method and its applicability to various types of SQL queries.
As quantum computing hardware advances, there is room for performance improvements and algorithmic improvements.
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