White-box Compression: Learning and Exploiting Compact Table Representations

Summary: White-box compression encodes logical columns as functions over stored physical columns with per-block headers, enabling DBMS-aware optimizations and execution (e.g., predicate push-down). A recursive pattern-driven learner discovers these functions, yielding large compression gains on the Public BI benchmark. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4f5cf3ed7e21c6ea
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 7.5963816e-05
Overall Rank: 3,146 | 78.85%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Bogdan Ghiță (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Diego Tomé (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
3. Peter Boncz (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ghita_cidr20,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '20},
        title = {{White-box Compression: Learning and Exploiting Compact Table Representations}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Ghiță, Bogdan and Tomé, Diego and Boncz, Peter},
        year = {2020}
}

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8,016	Generating Succinct Descriptions of Database Schemata for Cost-Efficient Prompting of Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	5.4065977e-05
8,160	PIDS: Attribute Decomposition for Improved Compression and Query Performance in Columnar Storage	2020	VLDB	5.3871591e-05
8,569	The FastLanes File Format	2025	VLDB	5.3132501e-05
9,843	High-Ratio Compression for Machine-Generated Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.1223012e-05
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10,857	Interoperable ACID Transactions for Open Table Formats	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,886	Accelerating String-Heavy Queries with LLM Token Tables	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,945	Morphing-based Compression for Data-centric ML Pipelines	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
61	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.000392237
163	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.0002749118
479	The Making of TPC-DS	2006	VLDB	0.00017622471
555	SageDB: A Learned Database System	2019	CIDR	0.00016506678
906	Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation	2016	SIGMOD	0.00013160654
1,605	The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010093796
1,770	How to Wring a Table Dry: Entropy Compression of Relations and Querying of Compressed Relations	2006	VLDB	9.686541e-05
4,690	Columnstore and B+ tree – Are Hybrid Physical Designs Important?	2018	SIGMOD	6.4687131e-05
5,423	Joins on Encoded and Partitioned Data	2014	VLDB	6.1360461e-05

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