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: 4775
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.0001054177
Overall Rank: 1,507 | 89.67%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465306

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Authors

1. Lefteris Sidirourgos (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sidirourgos_sigmod13,
        title = {{Column Imprints: A Secondary Index Structure}},
        author = {Sidirourgos, Lefteris and Kersten, Martin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465306},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465306},
        year = {2013}
}

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2,213	Designing Succinct Secondary Indexing Mechanism by Exploiting Column Correlations	2019	SIGMOD	8.9410226e-05
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3,413	Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing	2017	VLDB	7.4326381e-05
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3,598	Access Path Selection in Main-Memory Optimized Data Systems: Should I Scan or Should I Probe?	2017	SIGMOD	7.2718988e-05
3,877	An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats	2024	VLDB	7.0532293e-05
3,959	Simplicity Done Right for Join Ordering	2021	CIDR	6.9879431e-05
4,782	Cuckoo Index: A Lightweight Secondary Index Structure	2020	VLDB	6.5115802e-05
4,826	Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods	2016	SIGMOD	6.4904836e-05
5,512	BinDex: A Two-Layered Index for Fast and Robust Scans	2020	SIGMOD	6.1913331e-05
6,602	Predicate Caching: Query-Driven Secondary Indexing for Cloud Data Warehouses	2024	SIGMOD	5.8246665e-05
6,651	Progressive Indexes: Indexing for Interactive Data Analysis	2019	VLDB	5.8141997e-05
7,960	CUBIT: Concurrent Updatable Bitmap Indexing	2025	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
8,056	Sieve: A Learned Data-Skipping Index for Data Analytics	2023	VLDB	5.4983582e-05
8,349	Tree-Encoded Bitmaps	2020	SIGMOD	5.4460774e-05
8,370	Cabin: a Compressed Adaptive Binned Scan Index	2024	SIGMOD	5.4409293e-05
8,889	Provenance-based Data Skipping	2022	VLDB	5.3512428e-05
9,034	Fast and Adaptive Indexing of Multi-Dimensional Observational Data	2016	VLDB	5.3274671e-05
9,277	F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future	2026	SIGMOD	5.2937431e-05
9,795	Fingerprints for Compressed Columnar Data Search	2019	SIGMOD	5.2185987e-05
10,395	RABIT: Efficient Range Queries with Bitmap Indexing	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,468	LiveBin: A Localized and Version-Aware Binned Scan Index	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,768	Workload-Aware Column Imprints	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,061	Database System Support of Simulation Data	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,138	GIS Navigation Boosted by Column Stores	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.001157935
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00069513174
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.0006312782
104	Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00033932213
202	Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract)	1995	VLDB	0.00025454884
259	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023119313
721	Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct	2009	VLDB	0.00014631814
1,136	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00012027691
1,464	An Efficient Bitmap Encoding Scheme for Selection Queries	1999	SIGMOD	0.00010689981
1,629	Positional Update Handling in Column Stores	2010	SIGMOD	0.00010184131
2,773	On the Performance of Bitmap Indices for High Cardinality Attributes	2004	VLDB	8.1382209e-05

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