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Holistic Aggregates in a Networked World: Distributed Tracking of Approximate Quantiles

Summary: Proposes distributed-tracking schemes for continuous approximate quantiles over distributed streams, with space-per-site storage and low communication. A hybrid approach—local tracking plus simple prediction models—extends to holistic aggregates (e.g., heavy hitters), with experiments showing substantial savings. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h88f1e21f7d78fd38
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2005
Pagerank
8.4213787e-05
Overall Rank
2,465 | 83.44%
DOI
10.1145/1066157.1066161

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cormode_sigmod05,
        title = {{Holistic Aggregates in a Networked World: Distributed Tracking of Approximate Quantiles}},
        author = {Cormode, Graham and Garofalakis, Minos and Muthukrishnan, S. and Rastogi, Rajeev},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066161},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066161},
        year = {2005}
}

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2,649 A Geometric Approach to Monitoring Threshold Functions Over Distributed Data Streams 2006 SIGMOD 8.1716272e-05
3,681 Quantiles over Data Streams: An Experimental Study 2013 SIGMOD 7.1012729e-05
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5,120 Shape Sensitive Geometric Monitoring 2008 PODS 6.2639656e-05
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7,017 Continuous Distributed Counting for Non-monotonic Streams 2012 PODS 5.6179674e-05
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7,628 Distributed Online Tracking 2015 SIGMOD 5.4797177e-05
7,875 Sketch-based Querying of Distributed Sliding-Window Data Streams 2012 VLDB 5.4336639e-05
7,921 Sketch-based Geometric Monitoring of Distributed Stream Queries 2013 VLDB 5.4250462e-05
8,176 Together is Better: Heavy Hitters Quantile Estimation 2023 SIGMOD 5.3818879e-05
8,676 Prediction-Based Geometric Monitoring Over Distributed Data Streams 2012 SIGMOD 5.2893101e-05
9,343 Efficient Gossip-Based Aggregate Computation 2006 PODS 5.1895575e-05
9,615 Ranking Distributed Probabilistic Data 2009 SIGMOD 5.1504386e-05
9,897 Sharing Aggregate Computation for Distributed Queries 2007 SIGMOD 5.1125291e-05
11,877 MinMax Sampling: A Near-optimal Global Summary for Aggregation in the Wide Area 2022 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,884 Efficient and Error-bounded Spatiotemporal Quantile Monitoring in Edge Computing Environments 2022 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,944 Model Counting meets F0 Estimation 2021 PODS 4.9769913e-05
12,355 Scalable Approximate Query Tracking over Highly Distributed Data Streams 2016 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,874 LEE WAVE: Level-Wise Distribution of Wavelet Coefficients for Processing kNN Queries over Distributed Streams 2008 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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83 Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00035962466
124 Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams 2002 VLDB 0.00030586757
240 Gigascope: A Stream Database for Network Applications 2003 SIGMOD 0.00023425462
253 Approximate Medians and other Quantiles in One Pass and with Limited Memory 1998 SIGMOD 0.00023047482
267 Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports 2001 VLDB 0.00022713652
312 Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries 2001 VLDB 0.0002130211
343 Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks 2004 VLDB 0.00020510274
429 Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage 1999 PODS 0.00018445263
565 Distributed Top-K Monitoring 2003 SIGMOD 0.00016288995
735 Adaptive Filters for Continuous Queries over Distributed Data Streams 2003 SIGMOD 0.00014367765
850 The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor For Sensor Networks 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013482116
858 What’s Hot and What’s Not: Tracking Most Frequent Items Dynamically 2003 PODS 0.00013420431
863 How to Summarize the Universe: Dynamic Maintenance of Quantiles 2002 VLDB 0.00013390792
1,434 Power-Conserving Computation of Order-Statistics over Sensor Networks 2004 PODS 0.00010663712
3,273 Processing Set Expressions over Continuous Update Streams 2003 SIGMOD 7.469873e-05
5,655 Distributed Set-Expression Cardinality Estimation 2004 VLDB 6.0478521e-05
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