Reference: Analyze Statement

An analyze statement can be used to recompute the query planning statistics of a table.

Usage example:

-- Collect statistics for a single table
analyze orders;
-- Collect statistics for all tables
analyze;

When to use Analyze

CedarDB automatically recomputes query planning statistics on-demand when around 10% of a table changed. Thus, during normal operation, you do not need to run analyze manually.

When analyzing a table, CedarDB collects count-distinct sketches to estimate join results, a random sample of the rows to estimate predicates, and for numeric columns, a statistical distribution to estimate calculated expressions. Due to their probabilistic nature, these statistics might be inaccurate by chance. When a query runs slowly due to a bad query plan, running analyze on the queried tables might result in a different plan.