Column Imprints: A Secondary Index Structure

Summary: Column imprint: a cache-conscious secondary index of many small bit-vectors per cacheline to prune data access and cut memory traffic. Robust to unclustered data with only a few-percent overhead, and it outperforms zonemaps and WAH bitmaps on range queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h71fc45524bd4948d
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00010348765
Overall Rank: 1,529 | 89.73%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465306

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Authors

1. Lefteris Sidirourgos (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sidirourgos_sigmod13,
        title = {{Column Imprints: A Secondary Index Structure}},
        author = {Sidirourgos, Lefteris and Kersten, Martin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465306},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465306},
        year = {2013}
}

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2,238	Designing Succinct Secondary Indexing Mechanism by Exploiting Column Correlations	2019	SIGMOD	8.7751619e-05
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3,285	Performance-Optimal Filtering: Bloom Overtakes Cuckoo at High Throughput	2019	VLDB	7.4559907e-05
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3,599	Access Path Selection in Main-Memory Optimized Data Systems: Should I Scan or Should I Probe?	2017	SIGMOD	7.1773938e-05
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3,982	Simplicity Done Right for Join Ordering	2021	CIDR	6.8750228e-05
4,756	Cuckoo Index: A Lightweight Secondary Index Structure	2020	VLDB	6.43221e-05
4,885	Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods	2016	SIGMOD	6.3706825e-05
5,618	BinDex: A Two-Layered Index for Fast and Robust Scans	2020	SIGMOD	6.0630987e-05
6,240	Predicate Caching: Query-Driven Secondary Indexing for Cloud Data Warehouses	2024	SIGMOD	5.8382355e-05
6,746	Progressive Indexes: Indexing for Interactive Data Analysis	2019	VLDB	5.6907873e-05
7,481	CUBIT: Concurrent Updatable Bitmap Indexing	2025	VLDB	5.5128501e-05
8,199	Sieve: A Learned Data-Skipping Index for Data Analytics	2023	VLDB	5.3788727e-05
8,495	Provenance-based Data Skipping	2022	VLDB	5.3304338e-05
8,500	Tree-Encoded Bitmaps	2020	SIGMOD	5.3296886e-05
8,533	Cabin: a Compressed Adaptive Binned Scan Index	2024	SIGMOD	5.3215439e-05
8,552	F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future	2026	SIGMOD	5.316708e-05
9,204	Fast and Adaptive Indexing of Multi-Dimensional Observational Data	2016	VLDB	5.2080128e-05
9,978	Fingerprints for Compressed Columnar Data Search	2019	SIGMOD	5.1015956e-05
10,591	RABIT: Efficient Range Queries with Bitmap Indexing	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,655	LiveBin: A Localized and Version-Aware Binned Scan Index	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,070	Workload-Aware Column Imprints	2020	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,354	Database System Support of Simulation Data	2016	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,431	GIS Navigation Boosted by Column Stores	2015	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.0011405675
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00068998927
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00064031282
107	Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00033460288
206	Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract)	1995	VLDB	0.00024986675
253	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023042111
702	Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct	2009	VLDB	0.00014673738
1,151	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00011808563
1,497	An Efficient Bitmap Encoding Scheme for Selection Queries	1999	SIGMOD	0.00010478458
1,632	Positional Update Handling in Column Stores	2010	SIGMOD	0.00010021251
2,819	On the Performance of Bitmap Indices for High Cardinality Attributes	2004	VLDB	7.9715832e-05

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