iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP

Summary: iOLAP provides an incremental OLAP engine with mini-batches and delta updates to balance accuracy and latency. A delta-update algorithm models uncertainty to minimize recomputation, enabling scalable Spark deployment on 100+ machines with frequent approximate updates. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h536bed72f8b9b9b8
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.8447948e-05
Overall Rank: 6,220 | 58.20%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2915240

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kai Zeng (Microsoft)
2. Sameer Agarwal (Databricks)
3. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zeng_sigmod16,
        title = {{iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP}},
        author = {Zeng, Kai and Agarwal, Sameer and Stoica, Ion},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2915240},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2915240},
        year = {2016}
}

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6,710	Tempura: A General Cost-Based Optimizer Framework for Incremental Data Processing	2021	VLDB	5.7022785e-05
6,801	Intermittent Query Processing	2019	VLDB	5.6776677e-05
6,820	CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment	2020	CIDR	5.6708756e-05
7,728	Resource-efficient Shared Query Execution via Exploiting Time Slackness	2021	SIGMOD	5.4649863e-05
8,137	Thrifty Query Execution via Incrementability	2020	SIGMOD	5.391109e-05
8,408	FaDE: More Than a Million What-ifs Per Second	2025	VLDB	5.3364407e-05
8,567	Efficient Incrementialization of Correlated Nested Aggregate Queries using Relative Partial Aggregate Indexes (RPAI)	2022	SIGMOD	5.3118554e-05
9,583	A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation	2023	SIGMOD	5.154741e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00076265429
17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059813669
39	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00046583225
127	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00030414379
152	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00028657752
335	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.000206533
388	Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates	1995	SIGMOD	0.00019342096
408	DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views	2012	VLDB	0.00018894165
685	Trill: A High-Performance Incremental Query Processor for Diverse Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.00014778299
930	Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013009255
1,021	Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs	2011	VLDB	0.00012437619
1,198	Out-of-Order Processing: A New Architecture for High-Performance Stream Systems	2008	VLDB	0.00011561138
1,428	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.0001069161
1,608	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010085907
1,869	G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data	2015	SIGMOD	9.4749419e-05
1,916	The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing	2014	SIGMOD	9.3822742e-05
2,083	Incremental Maintenance for Non-Distributive Aggregate Functions	2002	VLDB	9.0703617e-05
2,362	Online Aggregation and Continuous Query support in MapReduce	2010	SIGMOD	8.5729053e-05
2,672	Relational Confidence Bounds Are Easy With The Bootstrap*	2005	SIGMOD	8.1456115e-05
5,744	Scalable Progressive Analytics on Big Data in the Cloud	2013	VLDB	6.0072829e-05
8,876	Stale View Cleaning: Getting Fresh Answers from Stale Materialized Views	2015	VLDB	5.2587627e-05

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