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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
8825
Venue
VLDB
Year
2001
Pagerank
0.00023406426
Overall Rank
430 | 97.02%
DOI
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126 Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00044753012
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141 Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption 1997 VLDB 0.00041819767
184 New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers 1998 SIGMOD 0.00036655704
212 Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033997204
216 Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation 1999 SIGMOD 0.00033560137
223 Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation 1998 SIGMOD 0.00032829841
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250 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030640525
270 Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms 1997 VLDB 0.00029648047
275 Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00029381206
316 Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports 2001 VLDB 0.00027981848
326 Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees 1998 VLDB 0.0002737538
328 Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation 1995 SIGMOD 0.00027301497
344 Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries 2001 VLDB 0.00026698826
360 Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers 1999 VLDB 0.00025768448
373 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00025354685
380 Towards Estimation Error Guarantees for Distinct Values 2000 PODS 0.00024943236
416 Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets 2000 VLDB 0.00023773968
512 STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram 2001 SIGMOD 0.00021385343
517 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00021193179
527 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020862475
531 Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? 1998 SIGMOD 0.0002079072
550 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00020346247
553 Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00020272747
617 On Computing Correlated Aggregates Over Continual Data Streams 2001 SIGMOD 0.00019048986
649 Progressive Approximate Aggregate Queries with a Multi-Resolution Tree Structure 2001 SIGMOD 0.00018652362
689 Efficiently Supporting Ad Hoc Queries in Large Datasets of Time Sequences 1997 SIGMOD 0.00018069077
736 Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00017414831
801 Universality of Serial Histograms 1993 VLDB 0.00016440976
838 Independence is Good: Dependency-Based Histogram Synopses for High-Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 0.00016024923
995 Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014745185
1,126 Dynamic Maintenance of Wavelet-Based Histograms 2000 VLDB 0.0001381102
1,240 Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information 1999 SIGMOD 0.00013090678
1,331 ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering 2000 VLDB 0.00012553948
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1,691 Combining Histograms and Parametric Curve Fitting for Feedback-Driven Query Result-Size Estimation 1999 VLDB 0.00010890775
2,813 A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries 2001 SIGMOD 8.0816314e-05
2,906 SPARTAN: A Model-Based Semantic Compression System for Massive Data Tables 2001 SIGMOD 7.9324961e-05
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