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Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently

Summary: Uses a view-dependency lattice to decide which data-cube cells to materialize when full materialization is infeasible; greedy algorithms yield constant-factor near-optimality. Hypercube-lattice focus, detailing space–time tradeoffs and practical materialization strategies for fast aggregates. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h4a0ff95cf478c628
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.00070860346
Overall Rank
11 | 99.93%
DOI
10.1145/233269.233333

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{harinarayan_sigmod96,
        title = {{Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently}},
        author = {Harinarayan, Venky and Rajaraman, Anand and Ullman, Jeffrey D.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/233269.233333},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.233333},
        year = {1996}
}

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214 On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates 1996 VLDB 0.00024576033
216 Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing 1998 VLDB 0.00024446892
222 Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00024136952
380 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019530546
382 Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources 2018 SIGMOD 0.0001946654
395 SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics 2015 VLDB 0.00019125046
404 Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs 1999 SIGMOD 0.00019034819
472 Incognito: Efficient Full-Domain K-Anonymity 2005 SIGMOD 0.00017689274
648 Materialized View Selection in a Multidimensional Database 1997 VLDB 0.00015161755
660 Storage Estimation for Multidimensional Aggregates in the Presence of Hierarchies 1996 VLDB 0.00015022694
904 Maintenance of Data Cubes and Summary Tables in a Warehouse 1997 SIGMOD 0.00013138723
927 Materialized View Selection and Maintenance Using Multi-Query Optimization 2001 SIGMOD 0.00013020035
935 Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing 2003 SIGMOD 0.00012968914
940 A Scalable Algorithm for Answering Queries Using Views 2000 VLDB 0.00012941424
953 DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses 1999 SIGMOD 0.0001287248
961 Materialized View Selection for Multidimensional Datasets 1998 VLDB 0.0001281898
971 Recovering Information from Summary Data 1997 VLDB 0.00012748313
1,029 A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses 2009 VLDB 0.00012380835
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1,073 Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes 1997 VLDB 0.00012140291
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1,131 Simultaneous Optimization and Evaluation of Multiple Dimensional Queries 1998 SIGMOD 0.00011875709
1,388 On-the-Fly Sharing for Streamed Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 0.00010806922
1,550 Data Warehouse Configuration 1997 VLDB 0.00010257652
1,625 Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing 2014 VLDB 0.00010028153
1,645 Synchronizing a database to Improve Freshness 2000 SIGMOD 9.9752579e-05
1,711 Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment 1997 VLDB 9.7964912e-05
1,757 Selecting Subexpressions to Materialize at Datacenter Scale 2018 VLDB 9.7050769e-05
1,766 On-Line Warehouse View Maintenance 1997 SIGMOD 9.6888572e-05
1,779 Caching Multidimensional Queries Using Chunks 1998 SIGMOD 9.6641413e-05
1,864 Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment 2000 VLDB 9.4653035e-05
2,222 Multi-Dimensional Regression Analysis of Time-Series Data Streams 2002 VLDB 8.8048988e-05
2,270 Dwarf: Shrinking the PetaCube 2002 SIGMOD 8.7112055e-05
2,301 Querying Aggregate Data 1999 PODS 8.6620636e-05
2,517 WATCHMAN: A Data Warehouse Intelligent Cache Manager 1996 VLDB 8.3412913e-05
2,527 Adaptive and Big Data Scale Parallel Execution in Oracle 2013 VLDB 8.3243069e-05
2,550 Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration 2003 VLDB 8.2869953e-05
2,626 Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries using Transient-Views 1998 SIGMOD 8.1919956e-05
2,673 A Layered Aggregate Engine for Analytics Workloads 2019 SIGMOD 8.1276375e-05
2,675 Moment-Based Quantile Sketches for Efficient High Cardinality Aggregation Queries 2018 VLDB 8.1273838e-05
2,702 Quality and Efficiency in Kernel Density Estimates for Large Data 2013 SIGMOD 8.0958339e-05
2,795 DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 7.9865595e-05
2,946 OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences 1997 PODS 7.81162e-05
3,235 Graph Cube: On Warehousing and OLAP Multidimensional Networks 2011 SIGMOD 7.4859375e-05
3,251 On the Complexity of the View-Selection Problem 1999 PODS 7.475366e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
73 Including Group-By in Query Optimization 1994 VLDB 0.00037420958
78 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00036725074
204 Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments 1995 VLDB 0.0002516936
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