Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets

Summary: Wavelet-based compact data cube for sparse, high-dimensional data enables approximate OLAP aggregates. Two I/O-efficient construction algorithms; online queries require one to a few I/Os with tunable accuracy, outperforming histograms and random sampling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3463f892239c8b01
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00024218831
Overall Rank: 222 | 98.51%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304199

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Authors

1. Jeffrey Scott Vitter (Duke University)
2. Min Wang (Duke University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{vitter_sigmod99,
        title = {{Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets}},
        author = {Vitter, Jeffrey Scott and Wang, Min},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304199},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304199},
        year = {1999}
}

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13,093	AIMS: An Immersidata Management System	2003	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
13,126	How to Evaluate Multiple Range-Sum Queries Progressively	2002	PODS	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023947656
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00076195956
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.00071084324
37	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00047731453
103	Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption	1997	VLDB	0.00033894985
153	New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers	1998	SIGMOD	0.00028633995
169	Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027134723
214	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00024656893
323	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.0002100085
967	Recovering Information from Summary Data	1997	VLDB	0.00012794553
1,106	Range Queries in OLAP Data Cubes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00011994008
3,967	Estimation of Query-Result Distribution and its Application in Parallel-Join Load Balancing	1996	VLDB	6.8905715e-05

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