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: 3589
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.8254873e-05
Overall Rank: 2,271 | 84.43%
DOI: 10.1145/1007568.1007603

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Authors

1. Christopher Jermaine (University of Florida)
2. Abhijit Pol (University of Florida)
3. Subramanian Arumugam (University of Florida)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jermaine_sigmod04,
        title = {{Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples}},
        author = {Jermaine, Christopher and Pol, Abhijit and Arumugam, Subramanian},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007603},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007603},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,108	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00012145154
1,435	Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage	2008	VLDB	0.00010800274
3,042	Continuous Sampling for Online Aggregation Over Multiple Queries	2010	SIGMOD	7.8231049e-05
3,700	Approximate MaxRS in Spatial Databases	2013	VLDB	7.1861452e-05
3,741	Spatial Online Sampling and Aggregation	2016	VLDB	7.1586403e-05
4,211	The Adversarial Robustness of Sampling	2020	PODS	6.8299006e-05
5,663	Early Hash Join: A Configurable Algorithm for the Efficient and Early Production of Join Results	2005	VLDB	6.1298345e-05
5,733	A Dip in the Reservoir: Maintaining Sample Synopses of Evolving Datasets	2006	VLDB	6.1062071e-05
5,891	Maintaining Bernoulli Samples over Evolving Multisets	2007	PODS	6.0495154e-05
9,732	External Memory Stream Sampling	2015	PODS	5.2279411e-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
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00077458002
131	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00030424509
136	Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering	1999	SIGMOD	0.00030123303
213	Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00024723025
462	Sampling Large Databases for Association Rules	1996	VLDB	0.00018065337
467	Random Sampling from B+ trees	1989	VLDB	0.00018002218
551	On Computing Correlated Aggregates Over Continual Data Streams	2001	SIGMOD	0.00016635191
553	Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016590619
730	Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014539362
817	Processing Complex Aggregate Queries over Data Streams	2002	SIGMOD	0.00013823702
850	Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes	2000	SIGMOD	0.00013619394
909	Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013291205
1,166	ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering	2000	VLDB	0.00011850439
1,206	Random Sampling from Hash Files	1990	SIGMOD	0.00011663837
1,397	Approximate Join Processing Over Data Streams	2003	SIGMOD	0.00010906135
2,608	A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries	2001	SIGMOD	8.347674e-05
6,654	Robust Estimation With Sampling and Approximate Pre-Aggregation	2003	VLDB	5.8131331e-05

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