iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP

Summary: iOLAP provides an incremental OLAP engine with mini-batches and delta updates to balance accuracy and latency. A delta-update algorithm models uncertainty to minimize recomputation, enabling scalable Spark deployment on 100+ machines with frequent approximate updates. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5329
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.9687498e-05
Overall Rank: 6,122 | 58.00%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2915240

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Authors

1. Kai Zeng (Microsoft)
2. Sameer Agarwal (Databricks)
3. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zeng_sigmod16,
        title = {{iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP}},
        author = {Zeng, Kai and Agarwal, Sameer and Stoica, Ion},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2915240},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2915240},
        year = {2016}
}

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1,995	Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time	2017	SIGMOD	9.3403665e-05
3,366	AQP++: Connecting Approximate Query Processing With Aggregate Precomputation for Interactive Analytics	2018	SIGMOD	7.4748604e-05
6,626	Tempura: A General Cost-Based Optimizer Framework for Incremental Data Processing	2021	VLDB	5.8198723e-05
6,684	CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment	2020	CIDR	5.8036476e-05
7,200	Intermittent Query Processing	2019	VLDB	5.6756294e-05
7,579	Resource-efficient Shared Query Execution via Exploiting Time Slackness	2021	SIGMOD	5.592546e-05
7,967	Thrifty Query Execution via Incrementability	2020	SIGMOD	5.5169373e-05
8,571	Efficient Incrementialization of Correlated Nested Aggregate Queries using Relative Partial Aggregate Indexes (RPAI)	2022	SIGMOD	5.4102496e-05
9,392	A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation	2023	SIGMOD	5.2755515e-05
11,109	FaDE: More Than a Million What-ifs Per Second	2025	VLDB	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
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00077458002
17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059843817
39	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00047309646
127	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00030738755
150	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00029208207
327	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021091539
375	Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates	1995	SIGMOD	0.00019681204
438	DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views	2012	VLDB	0.00018471721
710	Trill: A High-Performance Incremental Query Processor for Diverse Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.00014715033
909	Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013291205
1,009	Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs	2011	VLDB	0.00012684342
1,223	Out-of-Order Processing: A New Architecture for High-Performance Stream Systems	2008	VLDB	0.00011602265
1,401	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010889902
1,582	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010295367
1,827	G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data	2015	SIGMOD	9.6690206e-05
1,872	The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing	2014	SIGMOD	9.5759874e-05
2,064	Incremental Maintenance for Non-Distributive Aggregate Functions	2002	VLDB	9.2383582e-05
2,312	Online Aggregation and Continuous Query support in MapReduce	2010	SIGMOD	8.7642158e-05
2,633	Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap*	2005	SIGMOD	8.3224527e-05
5,676	Scalable Progressive Analytics on Big Data in the Cloud	2013	VLDB	6.1251441e-05
8,714	Stale View Cleaning: Getting Fresh Answers from Stale Materialized Views	2015	VLDB	5.3778009e-05

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