Code generation for efficient query processing in managed runtimes

Summary: Code-generation-based query compilation in managed runtimes accelerates in-memory object queries under language-integrated query (C#/LINQ), exploring multiple strategies. Demonstrates sizable speedups over LINQ and argues for DB-inspired techniques in managed runtimes to enable transparent, single-language in-memory data processing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10958
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 6.2498397e-05
Overall Rank: 5,356 | 63.26%
DOI: 10.14778/2732977.2732981

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Fabian Nagel (University of Edinburgh)
2. Gavin Bierman (Oracle)
3. Stratis D. Viglas (University of Edinburgh)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nagel_vldb14,
        title = {{Code generation for efficient query processing in managed runtimes}},
        author = {Nagel, Fabian and Bierman, Gavin and Viglas, Stratis D.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1095--1106},
        doi = {10.14778/2732977.2732981},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732977.2732981},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,797	How to Architect a Query Compiler	2016	SIGMOD	9.7368925e-05
2,156	Quickstep: A Data Platform Based on the Scaling-Up Approach	2018	VLDB	9.0635624e-05
2,250	Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting	2015	SIGMOD	8.8694486e-05
9,419	Language-Agnostic Integrated Queries in a Managed Polyglot Runtime	2021	VLDB	5.273161e-05
9,572	PlinyCompute: A Platform for High-Performance, Distributed, Data-Intensive Tool Development	2018	SIGMOD	5.2528121e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.0006312782
23	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00054886415
38	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047648573
157	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002863588
292	LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework	2006	SIGMOD	0.00022259549
438	DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views	2012	VLDB	0.00018471721
960	Incremental Query Evaluation in a Ring of Databases	2010	PODS	0.00012945163
4,137	Optimizing I/O for Big Array Analytics	2012	VLDB	6.8783832e-05
4,847	Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation	2010	VLDB	6.4805473e-05

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