Pyramid Sketch: a Sketch Framework for Frequency Estimation of Data Streams
Summary: Pyramid sketch: a modular framework for frequency estimation in data streams, enabling adaptive precision and fast updates under memory limits. Applies to four standard sketches, yielding up to 3.5x accuracy and 2.1x speed on skewed workloads; GitHub. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Tong Yang (National University of Defense Technology; Peking University)
- 2. Yang Zhou (Peking University)
- 3. Hao Jin (Peking University)
- 4. Shigang Chen (University of Florida)
- 5. Xiaoming Li (Peking University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{yang_vldb17,
title = {{Pyramid Sketch: a Sketch Framework for Frequency Estimation of Data Streams}},
author = {Yang, Tong and Zhou, Yang and Jin, Hao and Chen, Shigang and Li, Xiaoming},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {11},
pages = {1442--1455},
doi = {10.14778/3137628.3137632},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137628.3137632},
year = {2017}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 862 | Spectral Bloom Filters | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00013532857 |
| 885 | Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00013419017 |
| 1,045 | Sketching Streams Through the Net: Distributed Approximate Query Tracking | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00012440928 |
| 1,294 | Augmented Sketch: Faster and More Accurate Stream Processing | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00011291308 |
| 2,377 | gSketch: On Query Estimation in Graph Streams | 2012 | VLDB | 8.6710302e-05 |
| 3,044 | Holistic UDAFs at Streaming Speeds | 2004 | SIGMOD | 7.820774e-05 |
| 3,180 | Approximate XML Query Answers | 2004 | SIGMOD | 7.6599179e-05 |
| 3,788 | Graph-Based Synopses for Relational Selectivity Estimation | 2006 | SIGMOD | 7.1244416e-05 |
| 8,408 | A Shifting Bloom Filter Framework for Set Queries | 2016 | VLDB | 5.4312165e-05 |
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