Probabilistic Histograms for Probabilistic Data

Summary: Proposes probabilistic histograms for uncertain relations, preserving possible-worlds semantics for planning and AQP. Then a Dynamic Programming framework builds optimal buckets with per-bucket PDFs under metrics (variation distance, SSE, max error, EMD1)—polynomial-time, compact. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9888
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 4.5888589e-05
Overall Rank: 8,090 | 43.72%
DOI: -

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Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,712	Accelerating Approximate Aggregation Queries with Expensive Predicates	2021	VLDB	5.9787986e-05
11,502	In the Land of Data Streams where Synopses are Missing, One Framework to Bring Them All	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
74	Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00057857292
141	Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption	1997	VLDB	0.00041786333
321	MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data	2008	SIGMOD	0.00027527389
325	The History of Histograms (abridged)	2003	VLDB	0.00027378328
326	Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees	1998	VLDB	0.00027358981
627	Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges	2007	PODS	0.00018959005
706	MYSTIQ: A system for finding more answers by using probabilities	2005	SIGMOD	0.00017845469
2,748	REHIST: Relative Error Histogram Construction Algorithms	2004	VLDB	8.1785955e-05
3,041	Sketching Probabilistic Data Streams	2007	SIGMOD	7.6697078e-05
3,385	Estimating Statistical Aggregates on Probabilistic Data Streams	2007	PODS	7.1580391e-05
8,218	Mining Deviants in a Time Series Database	1999	VLDB	4.5566051e-05

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