Querying Temporal Drifts at Multiple Granularities (Technical Report)

Abstract: There exists a large body of work on online drift detection with the goal of dynamically finding and maintaining changes in data streams. In this paper, we adopt a query-based approach to drift detection. Our approach relies on {\em a drift index}, a structure that captures drift at different time granularities and enables flexible {\em drift queries}. We formalize different drift queries that represent real-world scenarios and develop query evaluation algorithms that use different materializations of the drift index as well as strategies for online index maintenance. We describe a thorough study of the performance of our algorithms on real-world and synthetic datasets with varying change rates.