REHIST: Relative Error Histogram Construction Algorithms

Summary: REHIST constructs histograms under relative-error metrics, addressing the limits of absolute-error histograms and wavelet schemes. It provides optimal and fast approximation algorithms with guarantees, plus empirical validation on synthetic and real data showing improved relative-error accuracy. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9224
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.1785955e-05
Overall Rank: 2,748 | 80.89%
DOI: -

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4,659	One-Pass Wavelet Synopses for Maximum-Error Metrics	2005	VLDB	6.0160083e-05
5,879	Fast and Near–Optimal Algorithms for Approximating Distributions by Histograms	2015	PODS	5.2908101e-05
8,090	Probabilistic Histograms for Probabilistic Data	2009	VLDB	4.5888589e-05
9,061	Optimality and Scalability in Lattice Histogram Construction	2009	VLDB	4.4039656e-05
9,507	Hierarchically Organized Skew-Tolerant Histograms for Geographic Data Objects	2010	SIGMOD	4.3341665e-05
11,821	Are Few Bins Enough: Testing Histogram Distributions	2016	PODS	4.1945683e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
222	Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00032828302
243	Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases	2001	SIGMOD	0.00031074984
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
327	Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation	1995	SIGMOD	0.00027308479
429	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00023476494
808	Universality of Serial Histograms	1993	VLDB	0.00016432772
1,400	Wavelet Synopses with Error Guarantees	2002	SIGMOD	0.00012191684
3,310	Optimal and Approximate Computation of Summary Statistics for Range Aggregates	2001	PODS	7.2408955e-05
3,619	Fast Algorithms For Hierarchical Range Histogram Construction	2002	PODS	6.9084829e-05
4,017	Optimal Histograms for Hierarchical Range Queries (Extended Abstract)	2000	PODS	6.524501e-05

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