Robust Estimation With Sampling and Approximate Pre-Aggregation

Summary: APA combines random sampling with pre-aggregation for accurate aggregates on categorical and mixed data. It yields SUM/AVG accuracy gains over plain or stratified sampling, boosting practical AQP for categorical data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9032
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 5.0429323e-05
Overall Rank: 6,491 | 54.85%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Christopher Jermaine

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,368	Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples	2004	SIGMOD	8.9501526e-05
3,944	AQP++: Connecting Approximate Query Processing With Aggregate Precomputation for Interactive Analytics	2018	SIGMOD	6.6078243e-05
5,817	Derby/S: A DBMS for Sample-Based Query Answering	2006	SIGMOD	5.3156799e-05
6,740	Combining Aggregation and Sampling (Nearly) Optimally for Approximate Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	4.944395e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010801504
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
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
326	Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees	1998	VLDB	0.00027358981
523	Recovering Information from Summary Data	1997	VLDB	0.00021089782
739	Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00017401518
996	Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014741524
1,335	ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering	2000	VLDB	0.00012502131
1,400	Wavelet Synopses with Error Guarantees	2002	SIGMOD	0.00012191684
2,808	A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries	2001	SIGMOD	8.0870741e-05
2,835	Applying the Golden Rule of Sampling for Query Estimation	2001	SIGMOD	8.0448428e-05

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