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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
0.00029351676
Overall Rank
151 | 98.96%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
119 Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams 2002 VLDB 0.00032265625
140 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029955359
212 Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00025045482
255 Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports 2001 VLDB 0.00023376534
302 Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries 2001 VLDB 0.00022030492
332 Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks 2004 VLDB 0.00020989244
357 Evaluating Probabilistic Queries over Imprecise Data 2003 SIGMOD 0.00020355418
364 Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial 2001 VLDB 0.00020183267
425 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00018757897
427 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00018740148
433 Random Sampling Techniques for Space Efficient Online Computation of Order Statistics of Large Datasets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00018623769
545 Distributed Top-K Monitoring 2003 SIGMOD 0.00016837063
554 Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00016672835
611 Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015865071
680 Approximate Counts and Quantiles over Sliding Windows 2004 PODS 0.00015150785
813 What’s Hot and What’s Not: Tracking Most Frequent Items Dynamically 2003 PODS 0.00013906993
914 Spectral Bloom Filters 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013297195
916 Aqua: A Fast Decision Support System Using Approximate Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00013286952
999 Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs 2011 VLDB 0.00012821539
1,156 ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering 2000 VLDB 0.00011999802
1,555 SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality 2011 CIDR 0.00010424917
1,619 Combining Histograms and Parametric Curve Fitting for Feedback-Driven Query Result-Size Estimation 1999 VLDB 0.00010273734
1,647 Global Optimization of Histograms 2001 SIGMOD 0.00010196455
1,657 Online Dynamic Reordering for Interactive Data Processing 1999 VLDB 0.00010171464
1,698 Offering a Precision-Performance Tradeoff for Aggregation Queries over Replicated Data 2000 VLDB 0.00010071754
2,263 Answering Aggregation Queries in a Secure System Model 2007 VLDB 8.9189205e-05
2,281 Dwarf: Shrinking the PetaCube 2002 SIGMOD 8.8927227e-05
2,325 Using Probabilistic Models for Data Management in Acquisitional Environments 2005 CIDR 8.8281302e-05
2,422 Summarizing and Mining Inverse Distributions on Data Streams via Dynamic Inverse Sampling 2005 VLDB 8.6722118e-05
2,602 Partial Results in Database Systems 2014 SIGMOD 8.4256834e-05
2,748 A Simpler and More Efficient Deterministic Scheme for Finding Frequent Items over Sliding Windows 2006 PODS 8.2356608e-05
2,829 Data Sketches for Disaggregated Subset Sum and Frequent Item Estimation 2018 SIGMOD 8.1284257e-05
2,934 Optimal Sampling from Sliding Windows 2009 PODS 8.01483e-05
3,315 AQP++: Connecting Approximate Query Processing With Aggregate Precomputation for Interactive Analytics 2018 SIGMOD 7.5891729e-05
3,730 Tighter Estimation using Bottom-k Sketches 2008 VLDB 7.2290504e-05
4,181 Density Biased Sampling: An Improved Method for Data Mining and Clustering 2000 SIGMOD 6.912593e-05
4,194 On Biased Reservoir Sampling in the Presence of Stream Evolution 2006 VLDB 6.9060741e-05
4,472 Exact and Approximate Aggregation in Constraint Query Languages 1999 PODS 6.741017e-05
4,789 Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes 2005 PODS 6.5739252e-05
5,419 XWAVE: Optimal and Approximate Extended Wavelets for Streaming Data 2004 VLDB 6.2957088e-05
6,030 Finding Frequent Items in Probabilistic Data 2008 SIGMOD 6.0614112e-05
6,318 A Dip in the Reservoir: Maintaining Sample Synopses of Evolving Datasets 2006 VLDB 5.9747018e-05
6,550 Robust Estimation With Sampling and Approximate Pre-Aggregation 2003 VLDB 5.9015987e-05
6,551 Maintaining Bernoulli Samples over Evolving Multisets 2007 PODS 5.9015886e-05
6,601 Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing 2009 CIDR 5.8860028e-05
7,663 Distributed Outlier Detection using Compressive Sensing 2015 SIGMOD 5.6285941e-05
7,689 Sketching Unaggregated Data Streams for Subpopulation-Size Queries 2007 PODS 5.6241039e-05
7,975 Experiences with Approximating Queries in Microsoft’s Production Big-Data Clusters 2019 VLDB 5.5693687e-05
8,346 Sampling Big Ideas in Query Optimization 2023 PODS 5.5034209e-05
8,580 Adaptive Index Structures 2002 VLDB 5.4685936e-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
10 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00077936311
35 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00048862242
76 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00037322071
234 Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms 1997 VLDB 0.00024050031
277 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022592757
471 Random Sampling from B+ trees 1989 VLDB 0.00018009381
697 Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data 1997 SIGMOD 0.00015041933
769 Universality of Serial Histograms 1993 VLDB 0.00014233685
937 Recovering Information from Summary Data 1997 VLDB 0.00013147321
4,414 Random Sampling from Pseudo-Ranked B+ Trees 1992 VLDB 6.7790326e-05
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