Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples

Summary: Online maintenance of very large on-disk samples from streaming data. Presents online, single-pass algorithms that maintain true random samples (without replacement) of all data seen so far at gigabyte–terabyte scales, suitable for biased or unequal probability sampling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3527
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.9501526e-05
Overall Rank: 2,368 | 83.53%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,475	Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage	2008	VLDB	0.00011806921
1,574	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011287495
3,594	Continuous Sampling for Online Aggregation Over Multiple Queries	2010	SIGMOD	6.9381343e-05
3,805	Approximate MaxRS in Spatial Databases	2013	VLDB	6.7521192e-05
4,029	Spatial Online Sampling and Aggregation	2016	VLDB	6.51315e-05
4,172	The Adversarial Robustness of Sampling	2020	PODS	6.3879072e-05
5,906	Early Hash Join: A Configurable Algorithm for the Efficient and Early Production of Join Results	2005	VLDB	5.2787348e-05
6,190	Maintaining Bernoulli Samples over Evolving Multisets	2007	PODS	5.1645517e-05
6,286	A Dip in the Reservoir: Maintaining Sample Synopses of Evolving Datasets	2006	VLDB	5.1280225e-05
9,632	External Memory Stream Sampling	2015	PODS	4.313481e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010801504
211	Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering	1999	SIGMOD	0.00033981214
217	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00033536712
273	Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00029390945
357	Random Sampling from B+ trees	1989	VLDB	0.00026020098
473	Sampling Large Databases for Association Rules	1996	VLDB	0.0002233798
553	Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation	1996	SIGMOD	0.00020272061
619	On Computing Correlated Aggregates Over Continual Data Streams	2001	SIGMOD	0.00019066583
739	Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00017401518
783	Random Sampling from Hash Files	1990	SIGMOD	0.00016704834
996	Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014741524
1,064	Processing Complex Aggregate Queries over Data Streams	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014356481
1,260	Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00012993347
1,335	ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering	2000	VLDB	0.00012502131
1,717	Approximate Join Processing Over Data Streams	2003	SIGMOD	0.00010793312
2,808	A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries	2001	SIGMOD	8.0870741e-05
6,491	Robust Estimation With Sampling and Approximate Pre-Aggregation	2003	VLDB	5.0429323e-05

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