Combi-Operator – Database Support for Data Mining Applications

Summary: Identifies high-dimensional aggregation across all low-dimensional projections (e.g., histograms) as a key data-mining subproblem. Introduces Combi-Operator, a new SQL-operator aligned with OLAP GROUP BY; memory-aware implementations yield up to 10× speedups over existing DB methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hc6da14575548ce62
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 6.0352838e-05
Overall Rank: 5,647 | 62.15%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50045-8

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alexander Hinneburg (Martin-Luther-University of Halle)
2. Dirk Habich (Martin-Luther-University of Halle)
3. Wolfgang Lehner (Technical University of Dresden)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hinneburg_vldb03,
        title = {{Combi-Operator – Database Support for Data Mining Applications}},
        author = {Hinneburg, Alexander and Habich, Dirk and Lehner, Wolfgang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50045-8},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50045-8},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,598	Efficient Computation of Multiple Group By Queries	2005	SIGMOD	6.053914e-05
8,869	Building Statistical Models and Scoring with UDFs	2007	SIGMOD	5.2463747e-05
13,091	PSYCHO: A Prototype System for Pattern Management	2005	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
214	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00024576033
324	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.00020934349
404	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.00019034819
591	Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently	1998	VLDB	0.00015853273
1,008	Integrating Association Rule Mining with Relational Database Systems: Alternatives and Implications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00012527069
1,073	Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes	1997	VLDB	0.00012140291
1,883	Efficient Computation of Iceberg Cubes with Complex Measures	2001	SIGMOD	9.4237043e-05
1,893	Finding Generalized Projected Clusters in High Dimensional Spaces	2000	SIGMOD	9.4048477e-05
2,006	SQLEM: Fast Clustering in SQL using the EM Algorithm	2000	SIGMOD	9.1840961e-05
2,046	RainForest - A Framework for Fast Decision Tree Construction of Large Datasets	1998	VLDB	9.1229933e-05
2,317	Query Flocks: A Generalization of Association-Rule Mining	1998	SIGMOD	8.6398664e-05
3,454	Cubetree: Organization of and Bulk Incremental Updates on the Data Cube	1997	SIGMOD	7.270801e-05
3,627	A Monte Carlo Algorithm for Fast Projective Clustering	2002	SIGMOD	7.1290231e-05
3,750	Optimal Grid-Clustering: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in High-Dimensional Clustering	1999	VLDB	7.0336098e-05
4,251	A New SQL-like Operator for Mining Association Rules	1996	VLDB	6.6895375e-05
4,746	User-Defined Table Operators: Enhancing Extensibility for ORDBMS	1999	VLDB	6.4264234e-05
9,735	Analyzing Quantitative Databases: Image is Everything	2001	VLDB	5.1193575e-05
9,736	Using SQL to Build New Aggregates and Extenders for Object-Relational Systems	2000	VLDB	5.1193575e-05

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