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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
3087
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1998
Pagerank
0.00029226907
Overall Rank
149 | 98.98%
DOI
10.1145/276304.276334

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gibbons_sigmod98,
        title = {{New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers}},
        author = {Gibbons, Phillip B. and Matias, Yossi},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276334},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276334},
        year = {1998}
}

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255 Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports 2001 VLDB 0.00023174541
311 Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries 2001 VLDB 0.00021760621
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35 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00048481081
75 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00037277061
235 Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms 1997 VLDB 0.00023783792
274 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022645621
467 Random Sampling from B+ trees 1989 VLDB 0.00018002218
704 Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data 1997 SIGMOD 0.00014837704
786 Universality of Serial Histograms 1993 VLDB 0.00014053885
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