Scheduling Problems in Parallel Query Optimization

Summary: Studies multiprocessor scheduling of pipelined operator trees exploiting inter-/intra-operator parallelism; node weights model operator cost and edge weights model communication charged only when connected operators reside on different processors. Proves NP-hard and gives two approximation algorithms (fast: 3.56 ratio; slow: 2.87 ratio). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1053
Venue: PODS
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 9.2310451e-05
Overall Rank: 2,068 | 85.82%
DOI: 10.1145/212433.212471

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Authors

1. Chandra Chekuri (Stanford University)
2. Waqar Hasan (Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Stanford University)
3. Rajeev Motwani (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chekuri_pods95,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '95},
        title = {{Scheduling Problems in Parallel Query Optimization}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/212433.212471},
        doi = {10.1145/212433.212471},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Chekuri, Chandra and Hasan, Waqar and Motwani, Rajeev},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
822	Pipelining in Multi-Query Optimization	2001	PODS	0.00013807229
1,143	Toward a Progress Indicator for Database Queries	2004	SIGMOD	0.00011999403
1,762	Multiobjective Query Optimization	2001	PODS	9.812504e-05
2,337	Multi-dimensional Resource Scheduling for Parallel Queries	1996	SIGMOD	8.7267117e-05
2,394	A Case for Staged Database Systems	2003	CIDR	8.6362653e-05
5,451	Coloring Away Communication in Parallel Query Optimization	1995	VLDB	6.2139293e-05
6,018	Dependency-Aware Reordering for Parallelizing Query Optimization in Multi-Core CPUs	2009	SIGMOD	6.0060585e-05
7,258	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	5.6614636e-05
9,446	Parallelizing Query Optimization on Shared-Nothing Architectures	2016	VLDB	5.2667452e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
434	Query Optimization for Parallel Execution	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018531826
2,131	Optimization Algorithms for Exploiting the Parallelism-Communication Tradeoff in Pipelined Parallelism	1994	VLDB	9.1242116e-05
5,451	Coloring Away Communication in Parallel Query Optimization	1995	VLDB	6.2139293e-05

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