An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression
Summary: First: Comparison of bitmap vs inverted-list compression; 9 bitmap methods and 12 inverted-list methods for sorted-integer storage. Evaluates space, decompression, and set operations on synthetic+real data; yields guidelines and research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jianguo Wang (University of California San Diego)
- 2. Chunbin Lin (University of California San Diego)
- 3. Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California San Diego)
- 4. Steven Swanson (University of California San Diego)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{wang_sigmod17,
title = {{An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression}},
author = {Wang, Jianguo and Lin, Chunbin and Papakonstantinou, Yannis and Swanson, Steven},
series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3035918.3064007},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3064007},
year = {2017}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00039323387 |
| 177 | The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00026571747 |
| 776 | Bitmap Index Design and Evaluation | 1998 | SIGMOD | 0.0001406101 |
| 1,496 | An Efficient Bitmap Encoding Scheme for Selection Queries | 1999 | SIGMOD | 0.00010460047 |
| 2,810 | On the Performance of Bitmap Indices for High Cardinality Attributes | 2004 | VLDB | 7.9609074e-05 |
| 3,558 | Lazy, Adaptive RID-List Intersection, and Its Application to Index Anding | 2007 | SIGMOD | 7.1850547e-05 |
| 4,789 | UpBit: Scalable In-Memory Updatable Bitmap Indexing | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.4016324e-05 |
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