The History of Histograms (abridged)
Summary: A deliberately compressed, personally biased history of histograms, spanning scientific origins, approximation/compression, industrial adoption, and database problems. Treats the historical narrative itself as a histogram, preserving high-interest events under a fixed space budget and evaluating semantic fidelity. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens)
BibTeX Citation
@article{ioannidis_vldb03,
title = {{The History of Histograms (abridged)}},
author = {Ioannidis, Yannis},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '03},
doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50011-2},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50011-2},
year = {2003}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 51 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,792 | Filtered Statistics | 2009 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 55 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,644 | Optimal Histograms for Hierarchical Range Queries (Extended Abstract) | 2000 | PODS | 7.1399991e-05 |
| 3,967 | Estimation of Query-Result Distribution and its Application in Parallel-Join Load Balancing | 1996 | VLDB | 6.8905715e-05 |
| 4,251 | Selectivity Estimation for Spatio-Temporal Queries to Moving Objects | 2002 | SIGMOD | 6.7020655e-05 |
| 4,528 | XPathLearner: An On-Line Self-Tuning Markov Histogram for XML Path Selectivity Estimation | 2002 | VLDB | 6.5602044e-05 |
| 4,933 | A Comparison of Selectivity Estimators for Range Queries on Metric Attributes | 1999 | SIGMOD | 6.3474817e-05 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 242 | Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms | 1997 | VLDB |
| 2 | 1,687 | Global Optimization of Histograms | 2001 | SIGMOD |
| 3 | 12,319 | Are Few Bins Enough: Testing Histogram Distributions | 2016 | PODS |
| 4 | 283 | Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation | 1995 | SIGMOD |
| 5 | 6,639 | Approximating and Testing k-Histogram Distributions in Sub-linear Time | 2012 | PODS |
| 6 | 11,939 | Data-Independent Space Partitionings for Summaries | 2021 | PODS |
| 7 | 37 | Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates | 1996 | SIGMOD |
| 8 | 9,142 | Histograms Reloaded: The Merits of Bucket Diversity | 2010 | SIGMOD |
| 9 | 5,534 | Fast and Near–Optimal Algorithms for Approximating Distributions by Histograms | 2015 | PODS |
| 10 | 742 | Dynamic Multidimensional Histograms | 2002 | SIGMOD |