A Concave Path to Low-overhead Robust Query Processing

Summary: FrugalSpillBound applies concave-down plan-costs to SpillBound, trading robustness for far lower compilation overhead in robust query processing. Relaxing guarantees by 2x yields about 100x overhead reduction; OLAP benchmarks show up to 1000x gains, enabling ad-hoc robust processing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11731
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 4.4793681e-05
Overall Rank: 8,639 | 39.91%
DOI: 10.14778/3275366.3275368

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8,127	Robust Query Processing: Mission Possible	2020	VLDB	4.579056e-05
8,448	PARQO: Penalty-Aware Robust Plan Selection in Query Optimization	2024	VLDB	4.5100508e-05
8,626	Adaptive Code Generation for Data-Intensive Analytics	2021	VLDB	4.4829152e-05
10,627	Robust Plan Evaluation based on Approximate Probabilistic Machine Learning	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,751	PAR2QO: Parametric Penalty-Aware Robust Query Optimization	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040449103
71	How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2016	VLDB	0.00059038975
650	Robust Query Processing through Progressive Optimization	2004	SIGMOD	0.00018659177
1,079	What happens during a Join? Dissecting CPU and Memory Optimization Effects	2000	VLDB	0.00014233415
1,272	Proactive Re-Optimization	2005	SIGMOD	0.00012920076
1,647	Parametric Query Optimization for Linear and Piecewise Linear Cost Functions	2002	VLDB	0.00011033757
1,986	AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions	2003	VLDB	9.8536784e-05
2,631	Plan Bouquets: Query Processing without Selectivity Estimation	2014	SIGMOD	8.4101843e-05
4,348	Identifying Robust Plans through Plan Diagram Reduction	2008	VLDB	6.2660237e-05
6,374	Optimization of Conjunctive Predicates for Main Memory Column Stores	2016	VLDB	5.0927058e-05
6,479	Leveraging Re-costing for Online Optimization of Parameterized Queries with Guarantees	2017	SIGMOD	5.0483805e-05

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