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[EPIC] Improving cost calculations and cost based optimizations

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Description

Design document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M4mmV7KA1LSj-D-WJA338B4ydlm-8A8D5OPuDE5_SD4/edit

This is a meta issue for improving cost calculations and cost-based optimizations in DataFusion. We already have some statistics collected (mainly from the table sources) and there are estimations for statistics by some of the execution plan nodes, and the overall idea is to improve these as well as possible CBOs.

### Main Goals
- Have enough statistics to start nested join optimizations (#3843). This involves being able to estimate the weight of a join side, and do global re-ordering between join sides to minimize the overall cost of parent joins by reducing the output as much as possible at the bottom levels.
- Provide a more reliable static analysis phase for physical execution operators (so that range based pruning/predicate pruning can leverage the existing infrastructure on their implementations)
- What else?

### Work in Progress

- [x] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/3898
- [x] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/3845
- [ ] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/4158
- [ ] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/4159
- What else?

### Planned
- [ ] Estimating join cardinalities when the underlying table does not have any statistics (https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/3813#issuecomment-1276643214).
- What else?

### Future
- Support for histograms, so better value distribution when working with cardinality estimations / filter selectivity. Currently, none of the providers we use can directly pass it to us, so we either have to take a peek at the data or only expose the API for other services (like ballista) which can actually collect it and pass to us.

P.S.: feel free to update the text directly or let me know (and I can update it myself)

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Research direction

Start with the linked design document, then review the completed and open issues listed under Work in Progress and Planned, especially #3843, #4158, #4159, and #3813. The issue has no single implementation entry point or completion criterion; progress means addressing the listed statistics and cost-based optimization goals and updating this meta issue.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
data, databases, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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