Bitmap Index Design and Evaluation

Summary: Proposes a two-axis bitmap-index framework linking schemes to number representations and delineating space-time tradeoffs for selection queries. Identifies time-, space-, knee-, and space-constrained optima; analyzes compression and buffering and presents an improved bitmap-index evaluation algorithm for physical design guidelines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h375fc21667ae51be
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00014106166
Overall Rank: 769 | 94.84%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276336

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Authors

1. Chee-Yong Chan (University of Wisconsin)
2. Yannis E. Ioannidis (University of Athens; University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chan_sigmod98,
        title = {{Bitmap Index Design and Evaluation}},
        author = {Chan, Chee-Yong and Ioannidis, Yannis E.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276336},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276336},
        year = {1998}
}

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768	FITing-Tree: A Data-aware Index Structure	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014107655
960	Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes	2016	SIGMOD	0.0001283613
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5,025	Adaptive Sampling for Rapidly Matching Histograms	2018	VLDB	6.3078009e-05
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5,601	Approximate Encoding for Direct Access and Query Processing over Compressed Bitmaps	2006	VLDB	6.0682354e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
107	Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00033459417
611	"One Size Fits All" Database Architectures Do Not Work For DSS	1995	SIGMOD	0.00015572934
1,148	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00011809942
3,864	Database Buffer Size Investigation for OLTP Workloads	1997	SIGMOD	6.9618173e-05

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