Optimization of Common Table Expressions in MPP Database Systems
Summary: CTEs in MPP DBs: representation, optimization, and execution framework in Orca, Pivotal's Big Data optimizer. Experimental validation on industry-standard decision-support benchmarks demonstrates scalable performance gains for complex analytical workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Amr El-Helw (Pivotal)
- 2. Venkatesh Raghavan (Pivotal)
- 3. Mohamed A. Soliman (Pivotal)
- 4. George Caragea (Pivotal)
- 5. Zhongxian Gu (Datometry)
- 6. Michalis Petropoulos (Amazon)
BibTeX Citation
@article{elhelw_vldb15,
title = {{Optimization of Common Table Expressions in MPP Database Systems}},
author = {El-Helw, Amr and Raghavan, Venkatesh and Soliman, Mohamed A. and Caragea, George and Gu, Zhongxian and Petropoulos, Michalis},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {12},
pages = {1704--1715},
doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824044},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824044},
year = {2015}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,991 | Iterative Query Processing based on Unified Optimization Techniques | 2019 | SIGMOD | 6.0171458e-05 |
| 11,537 | Redundancy Elimination in Distributed Matrix Computation | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 559 | Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00016528822 |
| 1,154 | Efficient Exploitation of Similar Subexpressions for Query Processing | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00011934202 |
| 1,621 | Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00010203114 |
| 2,078 | Query Optimization in Microsoft SQL Server PDW | 2012 | SIGMOD | 9.2078209e-05 |
| 2,095 | Enhanced Subquery Optimizations in Oracle | 2009 | VLDB | 9.1803718e-05 |
| 2,850 | HAWQ: A Massively Parallel Processing SQL Engine in Hadoop | 2014 | SIGMOD | 8.0499212e-05 |
| 7,090 | Optimizing Queries over Partitioned Tables in MPP Systems | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.706401e-05 |
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