Chimp: Efficient Lossless Floating Point Compression for Time Series Databases
Summary: Chimp: lossless floating point streaming compression for time-series data, exploiting observed properties. Outperforms top streaming and general-purpose methods on compression and access time; 50% space vs rivals, with faster TSDB ingestion. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Panagiotis Liakos (Athens University of Economics and Business)
- 2. Katia Papakonstantinopoulou (Athens University of Economics and Business)
- 3. Yannis Kotidis (Athens University of Economics and Business)
BibTeX Citation
@article{liakos_vldb22,
title = {{Chimp: Efficient Lossless Floating Point Compression for Time Series Databases}},
author = {Liakos, Panagiotis and Papakonstantinopoulou, Katia and Kotidis, Yannis},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '22},
volume = {15},
number = {11},
pages = {3058--3070},
doi = {10.14778/3551793.3551852},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3551793.3551852},
year = {2022}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 148 | Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database | 2015 | VLDB | 0.0002900671 |
| 1,637 | Apache IoTDB: Time-series Database for Internet of Things | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00010013276 |
| 1,713 | Online Piece-wise Linear Approximation of Numerical Streams with Precision Guarantees | 2009 | VLDB | 9.8143771e-05 |
| 1,911 | ModelarDB: Modular Model-Based Time Series Management with Spark and Cassandra | 2018 | VLDB | 9.3912399e-05 |
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