Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries
Summary: Online algorithm for epsilon-approximate quantile summaries on streaming data, with worst-case space O((1/epsilon) log(epsilon N)). Improves upon O((1/epsilon) log^2(epsilon N); requires no a priori knowledge of N; experiments show space tighter than both worst-case and prior methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Michael Greenwald (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2. Sanjeev Khanna (University of Pennsylvania)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{greenwald_sigmod01,
title = {{Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries}},
author = {Greenwald, Michael and Khanna, Sanjeev},
series = {{SIGMOD} '01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/375663.375670},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/375663.375670},
year = {2001}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.00048481081 |
| 235 | Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00023783792 |
| 261 | Approximate Medians and other Quantiles in One Pass and with Limited Memory | 1998 | SIGMOD | 0.00023097188 |
| 443 | Random Sampling Techniques for Space Efficient Online Computation of Order Statistics of Large Datasets | 1999 | SIGMOD | 0.00018373044 |
| 508 | Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? | 1998 | SIGMOD | 0.00017275873 |
| 783 | A One-Pass Algorithm for Accurately Estimating Quantiles for Disk-Resident Data | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00014076306 |
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