Space efficiency in Synopsis construction algorithms

Summary: Introduces a general, space-saving technique for histogram and wavelet synopsis construction that renders the traditional 'working-space' notion redundant. The approach generalizes to broader dynamic-programming problems, easily adapting to existing algorithms; validated on real and synthetic data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9322
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 6.8204683e-05
Overall Rank: 3,719 | 74.13%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Sudipto Guha

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,459	Compact Histograms for Hierarchical Identifiers	2006	VLDB	4.7243492e-05
9,950	Distributed Wavelet Thresholding for Maximum Error Metrics	2016	SIGMOD	4.2421586e-05
11,365	SIEVE: A Space-Efficient Algorithm for Viterbi Decoding	2022	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,751	Efficient Haar+ Synopsis Construction for the Maximum Absolute Error Measure	2018	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040449103
14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010801504
64	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00063612837
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
269	Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms	1997	VLDB	0.00029656549
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
405	Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets	2000	VLDB	0.00024057494
429	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00023476494
808	Universality of Serial Histograms	1993	VLDB	0.00016432772
2,748	REHIST: Relative Error Histogram Construction Algorithms	2004	VLDB	8.1785955e-05
4,659	One-Pass Wavelet Synopses for Maximum-Error Metrics	2005	VLDB	6.0160083e-05
4,698	Deterministic Wavelet Thresholding for Maximum-Error Metrics	2004	PODS	5.9887317e-05
5,783	Extended Wavelets for Multiple Measures	2003	SIGMOD	5.3289633e-05

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