DigitHist: a Histogram-Based Data Summary with Tight Error Bounds

Summary: DigitHist: a histogram-based data summary for multi-dimensional selectivity with tight error bounds. Hybrid 1D/2D grids with sparse encoding and adaptive resolution; introduces u-error to minimize the gap between bounds; single-pass linear-time construction; superior precision at similar query time. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11436
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.8978716e-05
Overall Rank: 4,815 | 66.54%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,239	Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models	2019	VLDB	0.00013091459
1,978	Improved Selectivity Estimation by Combining Knowledge from Sampling and Synopses	2018	VLDB	9.8764627e-05
3,706	Every Row Counts: Combining Sketches and Sampling for Accurate Group-By Result Estimates	2019	CIDR	6.8232992e-05
8,414	PairwiseHist: Fast, Accurate and Space-Efficient Approximate Query Processing with Data Compression	2024	VLDB	4.5135713e-05
8,669	CoopStore: Optimizing Precomputed Summaries for Aggregation	2020	VLDB	4.4667395e-05
9,238	PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees	2025	SIGMOD	4.3648789e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
63	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00063595699
114	Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries	1988	SIGMOD	0.00046317654
141	Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption	1997	VLDB	0.00041819767
223	Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00032829841
275	Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00029381206
325	The History of Histograms (abridged)	2003	VLDB	0.00027398081
326	Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees	1998	VLDB	0.0002737538
512	STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram	2001	SIGMOD	0.00021385343
527	Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data	1999	SIGMOD	0.00020862475
1,240	Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information	1999	SIGMOD	0.00013090678
2,056	Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases	1999	SIGMOD	9.6692561e-05
2,167	Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation	2015	SIGMOD	9.3879598e-05
2,840	Applying the Golden Rule of Sampling for Query Estimation	2001	SIGMOD	8.0417349e-05

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