A One-Pass Algorithm for Accurately Estimating Quantiles for Disk-Resident Data

Summary: One-pass, deterministic algorithm for estimating p-quantiles on disk-resident data; yields tight lower/upper bounds without distributional assumptions. Scalable parallel formulation; constant per-quantile overhead after the first, with robust validation on IBM SP-2 across distributions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8436
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 0.00021046587
Overall Rank: 526 | 96.35%
DOI: -

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126	Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00044753012
274	Approximate Medians and other Quantiles in One Pass and with Limited Memory	1998	SIGMOD	0.00029383266
325	The History of Histograms (abridged)	2003	VLDB	0.00027398081
446	Random Sampling Techniques for Space Efficient Online Computation of Order Statistics of Large Datasets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00023002059
617	On Computing Correlated Aggregates Over Continual Data Streams	2001	SIGMOD	0.00019048986
955	How to Summarize the Universe: Dynamic Maintenance of Quantiles	2002	VLDB	0.00015069776
2,698	Reverse Nearest Neighbor Aggregates Over Data Streams	2002	VLDB	8.2763494e-05
7,514	Logging Every Footstep: Quantile Summaries for the Entire History	2010	SIGMOD	4.7135369e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
28	Accurate Estimation Of The Number Of Tuples Satisfying A Condition	1984	SIGMOD	0.00080571183
63	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00063595699
114	Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries	1988	SIGMOD	0.00046317654
362	Fast Similarity Search in the Presence of Noise, Scaling, and Translation in Time-Series Databases	1995	VLDB	0.00025758421
602	Mining Quantitative Association Rules in Large Relational Tables	1996	SIGMOD	0.00019350521

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