An Efficient Bitmap Encoding Scheme for Selection Queries

Summary: Proposes a bitmap encoding for selection queries and shows existing schemes are not optimal for two-sided range queries. Experiments show the encoding yields better space-time tradeoffs versus existing schemes and four hybrids for membership queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3102
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00010828605
Overall Rank: 1,701 | 88.18%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Chee-Yong Chan
2. Yannis E. Ioannidis

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2,821	An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression	2017	SIGMOD	8.0639288e-05
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3,858	Bit-Sliced Index Arithmetic	2001	SIGMOD	6.6893766e-05
5,118	Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods	2016	SIGMOD	5.6781464e-05
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5,605	Approximate Encoding for Direct Access and Query Processing over Compressed Bitmaps	2006	VLDB	5.413565e-05
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6,233	Supporting RFID-based Item Tracking Applications in Oracle DBMS Using a Bitmap Datatype	2005	VLDB	5.1390355e-05
6,656	Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By	2007	SIGMOD	4.9691233e-05
7,837	CUBIT: Concurrent Updatable Bitmap Indexing	2025	VLDB	4.6342964e-05
8,424	Tree-Encoded Bitmaps	2020	SIGMOD	4.5111681e-05
10,105	RABIT: Efficient Range Queries with Bitmap Indexing	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,106	Regular Expression Indexing for Log Analysis	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,303	Secondary Indexing in One Dimension: Beyond B-trees and Bitmap Indexes	2009	PODS	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
121	Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00045429472
828	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00016141484
1,033	Bitmap Index Design and Evaluation	1998	SIGMOD	0.0001453376

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