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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
0.00071084324
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 0.00024656893
216 Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing 1998 VLDB 0.00024485024
222 Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets 1999 SIGMOD 0.00024218831
378 AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility 1998 SIGMOD 0.00019549382
379 Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources 2018 SIGMOD 0.00019514689
395 SeeDB: Efficient Data-Driven Visualization Recommendations to Support Visual Analytics 2015 VLDB 0.00019165452
403 Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs 1999 SIGMOD 0.0001910396
469 Incognito: Efficient Full-Domain K-Anonymity 2005 SIGMOD 0.0001775622
644 Materialized View Selection in a Multidimensional Database 1997 VLDB 0.00015213935
655 Storage Estimation for Multidimensional Aggregates in the Presence of Hierarchies 1996 VLDB 0.00015070228
901 Maintenance of Data Cubes and Summary Tables in a Warehouse 1997 SIGMOD 0.00013185553
923 Materialized View Selection and Maintenance Using Multi-Query Optimization 2001 SIGMOD 0.00013064753
931 Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013011667
935 A Scalable Algorithm for Answering Queries Using Views 2000 VLDB 0.00012989395
949 DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses 1999 SIGMOD 0.00012902181
957 Materialized View Selection for Multidimensional Datasets 1998 VLDB 0.00012861484
967 Recovering Information from Summary Data 1997 VLDB 0.00012794553
1,034 A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses 2009 VLDB 0.00012394538
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1,054 Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012269068
1,068 Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes 1997 VLDB 0.00012185465
1,082 Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012122749
1,106 Range Queries in OLAP Data Cubes 1997 SIGMOD 0.00011994008
1,127 Simultaneous Optimization and Evaluation of Multiple Dimensional Queries 1998 SIGMOD 0.00011918964
1,383 On-the-Fly Sharing for Streamed Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 0.00010847646
1,547 Data Warehouse Configuration 1997 VLDB 0.00010292395
1,622 Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing 2014 VLDB 0.00010051462
1,639 Synchronizing a database to Improve Freshness 2000 SIGMOD 0.0001001205
1,706 Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment 1997 VLDB 9.8299851e-05
1,745 Selecting Subexpressions to Materialize at Datacenter Scale 2018 VLDB 9.7343818e-05
1,753 On-Line Warehouse View Maintenance 1997 SIGMOD 9.7248839e-05
1,764 Caching Multidimensional Queries Using Chunks 1998 SIGMOD 9.6965217e-05
1,853 Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment 2000 VLDB 9.5001964e-05
2,208 Multi-Dimensional Regression Analysis of Time-Series Data Streams 2002 VLDB 8.8382452e-05
2,256 Dwarf: Shrinking the PetaCube 2002 SIGMOD 8.7438759e-05
2,289 Querying Aggregate Data 1999 PODS 8.6891266e-05
2,511 WATCHMAN: A Data Warehouse Intelligent Cache Manager 1996 VLDB 8.3696476e-05
2,530 Adaptive and Big Data Scale Parallel Execution in Oracle 2013 VLDB 8.3391175e-05
2,544 Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration 2003 VLDB 8.3179863e-05
2,619 Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries using Transient-Views 1998 SIGMOD 8.2215744e-05
2,663 A Layered Aggregate Engine for Analytics Workloads 2019 SIGMOD 8.1581558e-05
2,688 Quality and Efficiency in Kernel Density Estimates for Large Data 2013 SIGMOD 8.1265396e-05
2,786 DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 8.0165674e-05
2,798 Moment-Based Quantile Sketches for Efficient High Cardinality Aggregation Queries 2018 VLDB 7.9933329e-05
2,932 OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences 1997 PODS 7.8403303e-05
3,222 Graph Cube: On Warehousing and OLAP Multidimensional Networks 2011 SIGMOD 7.5135441e-05
3,259 On the Complexity of the View-Selection Problem 1999 PODS 7.4855259e-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 0.00037522101
77 Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute 1995 VLDB 0.00036828234
202 Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments 1995 VLDB 0.00025244649
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