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Gabor Gevay commented on FLINK-2147:
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(Note that the out-of-order problem that I mentioned for the incremental median
stuff was about the situation that I wanted to re-use some part of the
calculations across different windows (hence the word "incremental"). This is
probably not necessary here, we can just work on separate windows separately.)
> Approximate calculation of frequencies in data streams
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>
> Key: FLINK-2147
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2147
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Streaming
> Reporter: Gabor Gevay
> Labels: approximate, statistics
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> Count-Min sketch is a hashing-based algorithm for approximately keeping track
> of the frequencies of elements in a data stream. It is described by Cormode
> et al. in the following paper:
> http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~graham/pubs/papers/cmsoft.pdf
> Note that this algorithm can be conveniently implemented in a distributed
> way, as described in section 3.2 of the paper.
> The paper
> http://www.vldb.org/conf/2002/S10P03.pdf
> also describes algorithms for approximately keeping track of frequencies, but
> here the user can specify a threshold below which she is not interested in
> the frequency of an element. The error-bounds are also different than the
> Count-min sketch algorithm.
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