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Data Provenance Aggregation and Structural Descriptors for Query-Template Identification

Runtime query similarity identification supports several activities, including workload analysis, identifying recurring behaviour, auditing, debugging, and anomaly detection.

Key points

  • Existing methods for evaluating query similarity mostly rely on SQL text, execution plans, or result values but do not account for input data or how results are derived during query execution.
  • This paper proposes a novel approach using data provenance for query-template identification.
  • We construct query-level profiles that capture explicit data dependencies, occurrence frequencies, and structural properties by aggregating tuple-level Lineage and Why-provenance across entire query results.
  • We evaluate our proposals using these profiles to identify query templates over \(12{,}500\) distinct query instances generated from parametrised TPC-DS query templates.

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  • [1]Data Provenance Aggregation and Structural Descriptors for Query-Template Identification
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 15, 10:20 PM
    Runtime query similarity identification supports several activities, including workload analysis, identifying recurring behaviour, auditing, debugging, and anomaly detection.
    Existing methods for evaluating query similarity mostly rely on SQL text, execution plans, or result values but do not account for input data or how results are derived during query execution.

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