Looking Ahead Makes Query Plans Robust: Making the Initial Case with In-Memory Star Schema Data Warehouse Workloads

Summary: Defines robustness of query evaluation to the plan space and introduces Lookahead Information Passing (LIP) for in-memory star-schema workloads. LIP narrows execution-time variance across left-deep plans, achieving near-optimal performance for all plans under plausible assumptions; evaluated with skew and correlation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11582
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.2976602e-05
Overall Rank: 4,276 | 70.26%
DOI: -

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