Building Wavelet Histograms on Large Data in MapReduce

Summary: Proposes exact and approximate wavelet histogram algorithms for MapReduce, cutting communication and runtime vs naive approaches. Implemented in Hadoop and evaluated on a 16-node cluster with real and synthetic data, showing large improvements. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10349
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.2731311e-05
Overall Rank: 5,908 | 58.94%
DOI: -

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7,533	Enabling Efficient and General Subpopulation Analytics in Multidimensional Data Streams	2022	VLDB	4.7134753e-05
8,952	One Seed, Two Birds: A Unified Learned Structure for Exact and Approximate Counting	2024	SIGMOD	4.4195459e-05
9,946	Distributed Wavelet Thresholding for Maximum Error Metrics	2016	SIGMOD	4.240067e-05
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3	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0024217964
8	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0015436578
22	SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets	2008	VLDB	0.00084679526
42	A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis	2009	SIGMOD	0.00073570328
63	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00063595699
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059744625
158	HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads	2009	VLDB	0.00040401371
169	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00038967371
223	Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00032829841
326	Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees	1998	VLDB	0.0002737538
344	Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries	2001	VLDB	0.00026698826
416	Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets	2000	VLDB	0.00023773968
442	Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce	2010	SIGMOD	0.00023095823
776	Building a High-Level Dataflow System on top of Map-Reduce: The Pig Experience	2009	VLDB	0.00016765694
789	Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)	2010	VLDB	0.00016602215
831	Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams	2008	VLDB	0.00016094846
1,126	Dynamic Maintenance of Wavelet-Based Histograms	2000	VLDB	0.0001381102
1,400	Wavelet Synopses with Error Guarantees	2002	SIGMOD	0.0001219602
1,615	The Performance of MapReduce: An In-depth Study	2010	VLDB	0.00011137225
2,735	Online Aggregation and Continuous Query support in MapReduce	2010	SIGMOD	8.2058004e-05
2,992	KLEE: A Framework for Distributed Top-k Query Algorithms	2005	VLDB	7.7661927e-05
6,426	Finding Global Icebergs over Distributed Data Sets	2006	PODS	5.0605823e-05

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