Approximate Temporal Aggregation

  • Authors:
  • Yufei Tao;Dimitris Papadias;Christos Faloutsos

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDE '04 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Temporal aggregate queries retrieve summarizedinformation about records with time-evolving attributes.Existing approaches have at least one of the followingshortcomings: (i) they incur large space requirements, (ii)they have high processing cost and (iii) they are based oncomplex structures, which are not available in commercialsystems. In this paper we solve these problems byapproximation techniques with bounded error. Wepropose two methods: the first one is based on multi-versionB-trees and has logarithmic worst-case query cost,while the second technique uses off-the-shelf B- and R-trees,and achieves the same performance in the expectedcase. We experimentally demonstrate that the proposedmethods consume an order of magnitude less space thantheir competitors and are significantly faster, even forcases that the permissible error bound is very small.