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Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial

Summary: Survey of approximate query processing for terabytes, contrasting online aggregation with precomputed synopses for fast, bounded results. Covers multi-dimensional and join synopses, set-valued queries, AQUA-style rewrite, maintenance, streaming data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8824
Venue
VLDB
Year
2001
Pagerank
0.00022846068
Overall Rank
449 | 96.88%
DOI
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99 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.00050022914
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126 Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00044744986
134 Processing Aggregate Relational Queries with Hard Time Constraints 1989 SIGMOD 0.00042452811
141 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00041786333
184 New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers 1998 SIGMOD 0.00036625711
211 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033981214
217 Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033536712
222 Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation 1998 SIGMOD 0.00032828302
237 An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 1997 VLDB 0.00031726304
252 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030632263
269 Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms 1997 VLDB 0.00029656549
273 Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029390945
308 Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports 2001 VLDB 0.00028142852
326 Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees 1998 VLDB 0.00027358981
327 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00027308479
344 Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries 2001 VLDB 0.00026702512
361 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00025775749
372 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00025354779
378 Towards Estimation Error Guarantees for Distinct Values 2000 PODS 0.0002497492
405 Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets 2000 VLDB 0.00024057494
512 STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram 2001 SIGMOD 0.00021380733
516 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00021196031
529 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020828852
530 Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? 1998 SIGMOD 0.00020803682
549 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00020376603
553 Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00020272061
619 On Computing Correlated Aggregates Over Continual Data Streams 2001 SIGMOD 0.00019066583
647 Progressive Approximate Aggregate Queries with a Multi-Resolution Tree Structure 2001 SIGMOD 0.00018668224
693 Efficiently Supporting Ad Hoc Queries in Large Datasets of Time Sequences 1997 SIGMOD 0.00018077335
739 Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00017401518
808 Universality of Serial Histograms 1993 VLDB 0.00016432772
842 Independence is Good: Dependency-Based Histogram Synopses for High-Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 0.00016031973
996 Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014741524
1,127 Dynamic Maintenance of Wavelet-Based Histograms 2000 VLDB 0.00013819179
1,241 Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information 1999 SIGMOD 0.00013097578
1,335 ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering 2000 VLDB 0.00012502131
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1,695 Combining Histograms and Parametric Curve Fitting for Feedback-Driven Query Result-Size Estimation 1999 VLDB 0.00010882793
2,808 A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries 2001 SIGMOD 8.0870741e-05
2,908 SPARTAN: A Model-Based Semantic Compression System for Massive Data Tables 2001 SIGMOD 7.9306333e-05
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