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: 3163
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00010689981
Overall Rank: 1,464 | 89.96%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304201

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Authors

1. Chee-Yong Chan (University of Wisconsin)
2. Yannis E. Ioannidis (University of Athens; University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chan_sigmod99,
        title = {{An Efficient Bitmap Encoding Scheme for Selection Queries}},
        author = {Chan, Chee-Yong and Ioannidis, Yannis E.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304201},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304201},
        year = {1999}
}

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1,507	Column Imprints: A Secondary Index Structure	2013	SIGMOD	0.0001054177
2,224	An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression	2017	SIGMOD	8.9183396e-05
2,389	Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats	2014	SIGMOD	8.6439053e-05
2,620	Fauce: Fast and Accurate Deep Ensembles with Uncertainty for Cardinality Estimation	2021	VLDB	8.3363963e-05
2,773	On the Performance of Bitmap Indices for High Cardinality Attributes	2004	VLDB	8.1382209e-05
3,295	Lightning Fast and Space Efficient Inequality Joins	2015	VLDB	7.5477715e-05
3,597	Bit-Sliced Index Arithmetic	2001	SIGMOD	7.2721197e-05
4,826	Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods	2016	SIGMOD	6.4904836e-05
4,988	UpBit: Scalable In-Memory Updatable Bitmap Indexing	2016	SIGMOD	6.4107392e-05
5,472	Approximate Encoding for Direct Access and Query Processing over Compressed Bitmaps	2006	VLDB	6.2058219e-05
5,512	BinDex: A Two-Layered Index for Fast and Robust Scans	2020	SIGMOD	6.1913331e-05
6,152	Supporting RFID-based Item Tracking Applications in Oracle DBMS Using a Bitmap Datatype	2005	VLDB	5.9573045e-05
6,815	Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By	2007	SIGMOD	5.7652375e-05
7,960	CUBIT: Concurrent Updatable Bitmap Indexing	2025	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
8,349	Tree-Encoded Bitmaps	2020	SIGMOD	5.4460774e-05
10,395	RABIT: Efficient Range Queries with Bitmap Indexing	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,396	Regular Expression Indexing for Log Analysis	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,490	Secondary Indexing in One Dimension: Beyond B-trees and Bitmap Indexes	2009	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
104	Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00033932213
794	Bitmap Index Design and Evaluation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00013969303
1,136	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00012027691

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