Optimal and Approximate Computation of Summary Statistics for Range Aggregates

Summary: Algorithms to build histograms for arbitrary range-aggregate queries that are provably optimal or approximable (pseudo-polynomial time), extending beyond prior equality/prefix/hierarchical-only guarantees. Fast, provably-optimal wavelet-selection for range aggregates with experiments showing clear gains over prior methods. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1239
Venue: PODS
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 7.2598265e-05
Overall Rank: 3,292 | 77.13%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
344	Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries	2001	VLDB	0.00026698826
430	Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial	2001	VLDB	0.00023406426
1,383	A Privacy-Preserving Index for Range Queries	2004	VLDB	0.00012262651
1,574	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011289028
2,583	Sample + Seek: Approximating Aggregates with Distribution Precision Guarantee	2016	SIGMOD	8.4973431e-05
2,752	REHIST: Relative Error Histogram Construction Algorithms	2004	VLDB	8.1723418e-05
3,621	Fast Algorithms For Hierarchical Range Histogram Construction	2002	PODS	6.9022467e-05
11,543	FlashP: An Analytical Pipeline for Real-time Forecasting of Time-Series Relational Data	2021	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,619	AIMS: An Immersidata Management System	2003	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
12,652	How to Evaluate Multiple Range-Sum Queries Progressively	2002	PODS	4.1905499e-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
14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010813443
28	Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition	1984	SIGMOD	0.00080571183
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
326	Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees	1998	VLDB	0.0002737538
380	Towards Estimation Error Guarantees for Distinct Values	2000	PODS	0.00024943236
431	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00023397171
531	Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough?	1998	SIGMOD	0.0002079072
801	Universality of Serial Histograms	1993	VLDB	0.00016440976
4,018	Optimal Histograms for Hierarchical Range Queries (Extended Abstract)	2000	PODS	6.5250686e-05

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