Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples

Summary: Online maintenance of very large on-disk samples from streaming data. Presents online, single-pass algorithms that maintain true random samples (without replacement) of all data seen so far at gigabyte–terabyte scales, suitable for biased or unequal probability sampling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hfd8f72f678200c42
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 8.6332031e-05
Overall Rank: 2,324 | 84.39%
DOI: 10.1145/1007568.1007603

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Christopher Jermaine (University of Florida)
2. Abhijit Pol (University of Florida)
3. Subramanian Arumugam (University of Florida)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jermaine_sigmod04,
        title = {{Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples}},
        author = {Jermaine, Christopher and Pol, Abhijit and Arumugam, Subramanian},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007603},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007603},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,061	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00012208639
1,461	Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage	2008	VLDB	0.0001058011
3,085	Continuous Sampling for Online Aggregation Over Multiple Queries	2010	SIGMOD	7.6607519e-05
3,783	Approximate MaxRS in Spatial Databases	2013	VLDB	7.0215819e-05
3,819	Spatial Online Sampling and Aggregation	2016	VLDB	7.0027383e-05
4,306	The Adversarial Robustness of Sampling	2020	PODS	6.6735594e-05
5,457	Early Hash Join: A Configurable Algorithm for the Efficient and Early Production of Join Results	2005	VLDB	6.1214435e-05
5,854	A Dip in the Reservoir: Maintaining Sample Synopses of Evolving Datasets	2006	VLDB	5.9689965e-05
6,011	Maintaining Bernoulli Samples over Evolving Multisets	2007	PODS	5.911598e-05
9,910	External Memory Stream Sampling	2015	PODS	5.1082848e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 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	0.00076265429
135	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00029858107
138	Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering	1999	SIGMOD	0.00029618887
222	Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00024210103
475	Sampling Large Databases for Association Rules	1996	VLDB	0.00017665769
478	Random Sampling from B+ trees	1989	VLDB	0.00017625093
564	Congressional Samples for Approximate Answering of Group-By Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016297598
566	On Computing Correlated Aggregates Over Continual Data Streams	2001	SIGMOD	0.00016288241
746	Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014282427
843	Processing Complex Aggregate Queries over Data Streams	2002	SIGMOD	0.00013534623
867	Approximating Multi-Dimensional Aggregate Range Queries Over Real Attributes	2000	SIGMOD	0.00013376165
930	Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013009255
1,182	ICICLES: Self-tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering	2000	VLDB	0.00011615497
1,231	Random Sampling from Hash Files	1990	SIGMOD	0.00011415576
1,431	Approximate Join Processing Over Data Streams	2003	SIGMOD	0.00010676907
2,654	A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries	2001	SIGMOD	8.1670397e-05
6,786	Robust Estimation With Sampling and Approximate Pre-Aggregation	2003	VLDB	5.6811262e-05

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