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On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates

Summary: Fast algorithms for CUBE operator, framing CUBE as a hierarchy of group-bys and extending sort- and hash-based aggregation. Optimizations: merge work across group-bys, caching, and precomputed group-bys; empirical results show speedups vs naive methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8371
Venue
VLDB
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.00025393082
Overall Rank
206 | 98.58%
DOI
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382 Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs 1999 SIGMOD 0.00019624537
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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
11 Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently 1996 SIGMOD 0.00072626888
76 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00037322071
178 Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions 1982 VLDB 0.00027119038
676 Storage Estimation for Multidimensional Aggregates in the Presence of Hierarchies 1996 VLDB 0.00015199832
1,615 Adaptive Parallel Aggregation Algorithms 1995 SIGMOD 0.00010284521
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