Beyond Simple Aggregates: Indexing for Summary Queries

Summary: Indexes that return compact statistical summaries (frequent items, quantiles, sketches, wavelets) for query ranges—bridging aggregates and reporting by delivering distributions instead of raw tuples. Linear-space structures with optimal or near-optimal query cost. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he23ace3cc47bc9b2
Venue: PODS
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.6300924e-05
Overall Rank: 4,374 | 70.60%
DOI: 10.1145/1989284.1989299

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Zhewei Wei (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
2. Ke Yi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wei_pods11,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '11},
        title = {{Beyond Simple Aggregates: Indexing for Summary Queries}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989284.1989299},
        doi = {10.1145/1989284.1989299},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Wei, Zhewei and Yi, Ke},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,495	Independent Range Sampling	2014	PODS	8.3873598e-05
3,858	Is Min-Wise Hashing Optimal for Summarizing Set Intersection?	2014	PODS	6.9676872e-05
10,630	Data-Semantics-Aware Recommendation of Diverse Pivot Tables	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,446	Monitoring Distributed Streams using Convex Decompositions	2015	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00076195956
83	Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00035978046
169	Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027134723
222	Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00024218831
312	Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries	2001	VLDB	0.00021311793
566	On Computing Correlated Aggregates Over Continual Data Streams	2001	SIGMOD	0.00016295476
707	On Synopses for Distinct-Value Estimation Under Multiset Operations	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014640173
710	Approximate Counts and Quantiles over Sliding Windows	2004	PODS	0.00014608975
1,004	Dynamic Maintenance of Wavelet-Based Histograms	2000	VLDB	0.00012594522
1,090	Scalable Approximate Query Processing With The DBO Engine	2007	SIGMOD	0.00012077577
5,622	XWAVE: Optimal and Approximate Extended Wavelets for Streaming Data	2004	VLDB	6.0614658e-05

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