Counting Distinct Elements in a Data Stream

  • Authors:
  • Ziv Bar-Yossef;T. S. Jayram;Ravi Kumar;D. Sivakumar;Luca Trevisan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RANDOM '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present three algorithms to count the number of distinct elements in a data stream to within a factor of 1 卤 驴. Our algorithms improve upon known algorithms for this problem, and offer a spectrum of time/space tradeoffs.