Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets

Summary: Wavelet-based compact data cube for sparse, high-dimensional data enables approximate OLAP aggregates. Two I/O-efficient construction algorithms; online queries require one to a few I/Os with tunable accuracy, outperforming histograms and random sampling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3161
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00024723025
Overall Rank: 213 | 98.55%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304199

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Authors

1. Jeffrey Scott Vitter (Duke University)
2. Min Wang (Duke University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{vitter_sigmod99,
        title = {{Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets}},
        author = {Vitter, Jeffrey Scott and Wang, Min},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304199},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304199},
        year = {1999}
}

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12,532	A Wavelet Transform for Efficient Consolidation of Sensor Relations with Quality Guarantees	2009	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,803	AIMS: An Immersidata Management System	2003	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,836	How to Evaluate Multiple Range-Sum Queries Progressively	2002	PODS	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00077458002
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.00071822821
35	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00048481081
101	Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption	1997	VLDB	0.00034376651
149	New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers	1998	SIGMOD	0.00029226907
168	Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027541029
207	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00025088003
324	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.00021200835
952	Recovering Information from Summary Data	1997	VLDB	0.00013010681
1,100	Range Queries in OLAP Data Cubes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00012169143
3,893	Estimation of Query-Result Distribution and its Application in Parallel-Join Load Balancing	1996	VLDB	7.04191e-05

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