Adaptive Range Filters for Cold Data: Avoiding Trips to Siberia

Summary: Adaptive Range Filters (ARF) generalize Bloom-filter concepts to exclude ranges in cold data. Evaluation shows space, latency, and precision tradeoffs and demonstrates integration into a commercial DB with hot/cold partitioning to prune queries on hot data and avoid cold-data trips. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hac901e6ca8f261d8
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00011952597
Overall Rank: 1,117 | 92.50%
DOI: 10.14778/2536222.2536225

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Authors

1. Karolina Alexiou (ETH Zurich)
2. Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)
3. Per-Ake Larson (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{alexiou_vldb13,
        title = {{Adaptive Range Filters for Cold Data: Avoiding Trips to Siberia}},
        author = {Alexiou, Karolina and Kossmann, Donald and Larson, Per-Ake},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {14},
        pages = {1714--1725},
        doi = {10.14778/2536222.2536225},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536222.2536225},
        year = {2013}
}

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40	The Case for Learned Index Structures	2018	SIGMOD	0.00046363107
889	SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013243846
1,036	Fine-grained Partitioning for Aggressive Data Skipping	2014	SIGMOD	0.00012372946
1,524	Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database	2014	VLDB	0.0001036095
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9,651	Hourglass: An Adaptive Range Filter with Lightweight Hybrid Encoding	2026	SIGMOD	5.142891e-05
10,367	A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce	2026	CIDR	4.9769913e-05
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35	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047996489
232	Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback	1994	SIGMOD	0.0002378554
255	The History of Histograms (abridged)	2003	VLDB	0.00022974524
410	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.00018796567
451	Filtering Algorithms and Implementation for Very Fast Publish/Subscribe Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00018017347
6,783	AGILE: Adaptive Indexing for Context-Aware Information Filters	2005	SIGMOD	5.6817463e-05

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