Wave-Indices: Indexing Evolving Databases

Summary: Proposes wave indices for evolving databases, enabling insertion of new data and expiration of old data to sustain a sliding window. Evaluates wave-index schemes on storage and maintenance, highlighting simplicity and practical coding for last-window analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3024
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 5.8671916e-05
Overall Rank: 6,479 | 55.55%
DOI: 10.1145/253260.253349

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Narayanan Shivakumar (Stanford University)
2. Héctor García-Molina (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shivakumar_sigmod97,
        title = {{Wave-Indices: Indexing Evolving Databases}},
        author = {Shivakumar, Narayanan and García-Molina, Héctor},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '97},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/253260.253349},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253260.253349},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
832	Streaming Queries over Streaming Data	2002	VLDB	0.00013736125
12,363	FIFO Indexes for Decomposable Problems	2011	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,059	On B-tree Indices for Skewed Distributions	1992	VLDB	0.00012377809
1,407	Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval	1994	VLDB	0.00010856546
1,989	Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval	1994	SIGMOD	9.3486136e-05
2,776	Segment Indexes: Dynamic Indexing Techniques for Multi-Dimensional Interval Data	1991	SIGMOD	8.1356669e-05

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