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New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers

Summary: Introduces concise samples and counting samples—two sampling-based summary statistics for fast approximate answers. Demonstrates fast incremental maintenance across distributions, outperforming standard sample views in view-size efficiency; enables hot-list query speedups under continuous insertions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3026
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1998
Pagerank
0.00036655704
Overall Rank
184 | 98.73%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
168 Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams 2002 VLDB 0.0003915627
212 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033997204
275 Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029381206
316 Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports 2001 VLDB 0.00027981848
344 Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries 2001 VLDB 0.00026698826
360 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00025768448
430 Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial 2001 VLDB 0.00023406426
446 Random Sampling Techniques for Space Efficient Online Computation of Order Statistics of Large Datasets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00023002059
463 Evaluating Probabilistic Queries over Imprecise Data 2003 SIGMOD 0.00022497894
477 Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks 2004 VLDB 0.00022205608
550 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00020346247
736 Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00017414831
743 Distributed Top-K Monitoring 2003 SIGMOD 0.00017318557
778 Spectral Bloom Filters 2003 SIGMOD 0.00016729191
846 Approximate Counts and Quantiles over Sliding Windows 2004 PODS 0.00015949293
874 What’s Hot and What’s Not: Tracking Most Frequent Items Dynamically 2003 PODS 0.0001568356
941 Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015147831
960 Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00015031055
1,116 Global Optimization of Histograms 2001 SIGMOD 0.00013863484
1,331 ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering 2000 VLDB 0.00012553948
1,451 Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs 2011 VLDB 0.00011925842
1,531 Online Dynamic Reordering for Interactive Data Processing 1999 VLDB 0.00011467334
1,691 Combining Histograms and Parametric Curve Fitting for Feedback-Driven Query Result-Size Estimation 1999 VLDB 0.00010890775
1,735 SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality 2011 CIDR 0.00010713691
1,771 Offering a Precision-Performance Tradeoff for Aggregation Queries over Replicated Data 2000 VLDB 0.00010606967
2,083 Answering Aggregation Queries in a Secure System Model 2007 VLDB 9.579797e-05
2,120 Using Probabilistic Models for Data Management in Acquisitional Environments 2005 CIDR 9.5017579e-05
2,269 Summarizing and Mining Inverse Distributions on Data Streams via Dynamic Inverse Sampling 2005 VLDB 9.1507118e-05
2,665 Dwarf: Shrinking the PetaCube 2002 SIGMOD 8.3505169e-05
2,766 A Simpler and More Efficient Deterministic Scheme for Finding Frequent Items over Sliding Windows 2006 PODS 8.1559016e-05
2,807 Optimal Sampling from Sliding Windows 2009 PODS 8.096649e-05
3,054 Partial Results in Database Systems 2014 SIGMOD 7.6478475e-05
3,273 Data Sketches for Disaggregated Subset Sum and Frequent Item Estimation 2018 SIGMOD 7.2899198e-05
3,930 Tighter Estimation using Bottom-k Sketches 2008 VLDB 6.6195837e-05
3,944 AQP++: Connecting Approximate Query Processing With Aggregate Precomputation for Interactive Analytics 2018 SIGMOD 6.6056349e-05
4,177 Density Biased Sampling: An Improved Method for Data Mining and Clustering 2000 SIGMOD 6.3768049e-05
4,347 On Biased Reservoir Sampling in the Presence of Stream Evolution 2006 VLDB 6.2588401e-05
4,719 Exact and Approximate Aggregation in Constraint Query Languages 1999 PODS 5.9659829e-05
4,961 Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes 2005 PODS 5.7992561e-05
5,588 XWAVE: Optimal and Approximate Extended Wavelets for Streaming Data 2004 VLDB 5.4193309e-05
5,807 Finding Frequent Items in Probabilistic Data 2008 SIGMOD 5.3189104e-05
6,192 Maintaining Bernoulli Samples over Evolving Multisets 2007 PODS 5.1596405e-05
6,285 A Dip in the Reservoir: Maintaining Sample Synopses of Evolving Datasets 2006 VLDB 5.1231886e-05
6,485 Robust Estimation With Sampling and Approximate Pre-Aggregation 2003 VLDB 5.0386161e-05
6,837 Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing 2009 CIDR 4.9063121e-05
7,347 Distributed Outlier Detection using Compressive Sensing 2015 SIGMOD 4.7502395e-05
7,545 Sketching Unaggregated Data Streams for Subpopulation-Size Queries 2007 PODS 4.7099128e-05
8,235 Experiences with Approximating Queries in Microsoft’s Production Big-Data Clusters 2019 VLDB 4.5481384e-05
8,467 Sampling Big Ideas in Query Optimization 2023 PODS 4.4995247e-05
8,471 Adaptive Index Structures 2002 VLDB 4.4986491e-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
60 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00064450997
63 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00063595699
270 Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms 1997 VLDB 0.00029648047
328 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00027301497
352 Random Sampling from B+ trees 1989 VLDB 0.00026276293
523 Recovering Information from Summary Data 1997 VLDB 0.00021101376
651 Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data 1997 SIGMOD 0.00018649942
801 Universality of Serial Histograms 1993 VLDB 0.00016440976
3,965 Random Sampling from Pseudo-Ranked B+ Trees 1992 VLDB 6.5786424e-05
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