White-box Compression: Learning and Exploiting Compact Table Representations

Summary: White-box compression encodes logical columns as functions over stored physical columns with per-block headers, enabling DBMS-aware optimizations and execution (e.g., predicate push-down). A recursive pattern-driven learner discovers these functions, yielding large compression gains on the Public BI benchmark. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 376
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 7.5084986e-05
Overall Rank: 3,336 | 77.12%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Bogdan Ghiță (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Diego Tomé (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
3. Peter Boncz (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ghita_cidr20,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '20},
        title = {{White-box Compression: Learning and Exploiting Compact Table Representations}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Ghiță, Bogdan and Tomé, Diego and Boncz, Peter},
        year = {2020}
}

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1,138	Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics	2021	CIDR	0.00012023643
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4,457	Analyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems	2023	CIDR	6.6913393e-05
7,865	Generating Succinct Descriptions of Database Schemata for Cost-Efficient Prompting of Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	5.5282752e-05
8,000	PIDS: Attribute Decomposition for Improved Compression and Query Performance in Columnar Storage	2020	VLDB	5.5092344e-05
9,038	The FastLanes File Format	2025	VLDB	5.3270943e-05
9,673	High-Ratio Compression for Machine-Generated Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.2383683e-05
9,941	An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets	2025	SIGMOD	5.1915905e-05
10,057	AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets	2025	VLDB	5.1664022e-05
10,589	Morphing-based Compression for Data-centric ML Pipelines	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,564	Statistical Schema Learning using Occam's Razor	2022	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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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
60	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.0003955489
165	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.00027693424
476	The Making of TPC-DS	2006	VLDB	0.00017860667
568	SageDB: A Learned Database System	2019	CIDR	0.0001641553
941	Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation	2016	SIGMOD	0.00013078348
1,616	The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010213691
1,748	How to Wring a Table Dry: Entropy Compression of Relations and Querying of Compressed Relations	2006	VLDB	9.8480684e-05
4,637	Columnstore and B+ tree – Are Hybrid Physical Designs Important?	2018	SIGMOD	6.592197e-05
5,357	Joins on Encoded and Partitioned Data	2014	VLDB	6.2497031e-05

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