Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes

Summary: Introduces a novel, scalable algorithm for fast sparse datacubes with many CUBE BY attributes. In-memory data uses multiple sorts with no I/O beyond input and output; out-of-core uses divide-and-conquer to sub-datacubes, with I/O cost linear in the number of CUBE BY attributes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8603
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 0.00012256953
Overall Rank: 1,083 | 92.58%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kenneth A. Ross (Columbia University)
2. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ross_vldb97,
        title = {{Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes}},
        author = {Ross, Kenneth A. and Srivastava, Divesh},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 citing papers.

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393	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.0001934104
942	Materialized View Selection for Multidimensional Datasets	1998	VLDB	0.00013076262
1,360	Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube	2005	VLDB	0.00011040203
2,318	Dwarf: Shrinking the PetaCube	2002	SIGMOD	8.7588859e-05
2,496	Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	2003	VLDB	8.5025699e-05
2,730	DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis	2006	SIGMOD	8.1977425e-05
3,706	Supporting Ad-hoc Ranking Aggregates	2006	SIGMOD	7.1819534e-05
3,748	OLAP on Sequence Data	2008	SIGMOD	7.154573e-05
3,774	QC-Trees: An Efficient Summary Structure for Semantic OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	7.1381444e-05
5,470	Efficient Computation of Multiple Group By Queries	2005	SIGMOD	6.2070458e-05
5,500	Combi-Operator – Database Support for Data Mining Applications	2003	VLDB	6.1968585e-05
5,565	Efficient Allocation Algorithms for OLAP over Imprecise Data	2006	VLDB	6.171506e-05
6,658	CURE for Cubes: Cubing Using a ROLAP Engine	2006	VLDB	5.8104851e-05
6,902	The Polynomial Complexity of Fully Materialized Coalesced Cubes	2004	VLDB	5.7426524e-05
9,824	Iceberg-cube Computation with PC Clusters	2001	SIGMOD	5.214913e-05
11,609	High-dimensional Data Cubes	2022	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,914	Robust, Scalable, Real-Time Event Time Series Aggregation at Twitter	2018	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,036	An Efficient MapReduce Cube Algorithm for Varied Data Distributions	2016	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,295	Permuting Data on Random-Access Block Storage	2013	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,603	Dwarfs in the Rearview Mirror: How Big are they Really?	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,921	Dynamic Assembly of Views in Data Cubes	1998	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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	0.00071822821
207	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00025088003
324	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.00021200835

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