Column Imprints: A Secondary Index Structure

Summary: Column imprint: a cache-conscious secondary index of many small bit-vectors per cacheline to prune data access and cut memory traffic. Robust to unclustered data with only a few-percent overhead, and it outperforms zonemaps and WAH bitmaps on range queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4714
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 9.8403548e-05
Overall Rank: 1,993 | 86.16%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Lefteris Sidirourgos
2. Martin Kersten

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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959	Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015034808
1,909	BF-Tree: Approximate Tree Indexing	2014	VLDB	0.00010123661
2,868	Designing Succinct Secondary Indexing Mechanism by Exploiting Column Correlations	2019	SIGMOD	7.9856878e-05
3,611	Column Sketches: A Scan Accelerator for Rapid and Robust Predicate Evaluation	2018	SIGMOD	6.9178844e-05
3,893	Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing	2017	VLDB	6.653922e-05
3,906	Two Birds, One Stone: A Fast, yet Lightweight, Indexing Scheme for Modern Database Systems	2017	VLDB	6.6413008e-05
4,157	Performance-Optimal Filtering: Bloom Overtakes Cuckoo at High Throughput	2019	VLDB	6.3935343e-05
4,160	Access Path Selection in Main-Memory Optimized Data Systems: Should I Scan or Should I Probe?	2017	SIGMOD	6.3886736e-05
4,516	An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats	2024	VLDB	6.1146215e-05
4,526	Simplicity Done Right for Join Ordering	2021	CIDR	6.1079584e-05
5,118	Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods	2016	SIGMOD	5.6781464e-05
5,316	Cuckoo Index: A Lightweight Secondary Index Structure	2020	VLDB	5.5688295e-05
5,762	BinDex: A Two-Layered Index for Fast and Robust Scans	2020	SIGMOD	5.3367636e-05
6,971	Predicate Caching: Query-Driven Secondary Indexing for Cloud Data Warehouses	2024	SIGMOD	4.8738633e-05
7,000	Progressive Indexes: Indexing for Interactive Data Analysis	2019	VLDB	4.862486e-05
7,837	CUBIT: Concurrent Updatable Bitmap Indexing	2025	VLDB	4.6342964e-05
8,221	Sieve: A Learned Data-Skipping Index for Data Analytics	2023	VLDB	4.5511941e-05
8,424	Tree-Encoded Bitmaps	2020	SIGMOD	4.5111681e-05
8,439	Cabin: a Compressed Adaptive Binned Scan Index	2024	SIGMOD	4.5058812e-05
8,886	Provenance-based Data Skipping	2022	VLDB	4.4237386e-05
8,895	Fast and Adaptive Indexing of Multi-Dimensional Observational Data	2016	VLDB	4.423024e-05
9,203	F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future	2026	SIGMOD	4.3701616e-05
9,665	Fingerprints for Compressed Columnar Data Search	2019	SIGMOD	4.3041238e-05
10,105	RABIT: Efficient Range Queries with Bitmap Indexing	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,179	LiveBin: A Localized and Version-Aware Binned Scan Index	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,576	Workload-Aware Column Imprints	2020	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,868	Database System Support of Simulation Data	2016	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,948	GIS Navigation Boosted by Column Stores	2015	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.0016113151
20	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086163998
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076209479
121	Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00045429472
242	Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract)	1995	VLDB	0.00031093647
407	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023941779
754	Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct	2009	VLDB	0.00017093267
828	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00016141484
1,701	An Efficient Bitmap Encoding Scheme for Selection Queries	1999	SIGMOD	0.00010828605
1,949	Positional Update Handling in Column Stores	2010	SIGMOD	9.9934641e-05
2,984	On the Performance of Bitmap Indices for High Cardinality Attributes	2004	VLDB	7.7768363e-05

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