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Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer

Summary: Neo (Neural Optimizer) uses deep neural networks to generate query execution plans, offering a learning-based alternative to hand-tuned optimizers. Bootstrapped from traditional optimizers, it learns from live queries, adapts to data patterns, is robust to estimation errors, and can match or surpass state-of-the-art engines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11860
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00027301488
Overall Rank
329 | 97.72%
DOI
10.14778/3342263.3342644

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8,049 Thrifty Query Execution via Incrementability 2020 SIGMOD 4.5939412e-05
8,149 Efficiently Computing Join Orders with Heuristic Search 2023 SIGMOD 4.5715614e-05
8,162 MONSOON: Multi-Step Optimization and Execution of Queries with Partially Obscured Predicates 2020 SIGMOD 4.5686903e-05
8,219 PerfGuard: Deploying ML-for-Systems without Performance Regressions, Almost! 2021 VLDB 4.551524e-05
8,339 SlabCity: Whole-Query Optimization using Program Synthesis 2023 VLDB 4.5383933e-05
8,365 NeurDB: On the Design and Implementation of an AI-powered Autonomous Database 2025 CIDR 4.5305127e-05
8,378 Towards Building Autonomous Data Services on Azure 2023 SIGMOD 4.5275731e-05
8,411 The Case for Learned In-Memory Joins 2023 VLDB 4.5151296e-05
8,434 SageDB: An Instance-Optimized Data Analytics System 2022 VLDB 4.5077955e-05
8,479 Can Large Language Models Be Query Optimizer for Relational Databases? 2026 SIGMOD 4.4967983e-05
8,575 Robust and Budget-Constrained Encoding Configurations for In-Memory Database Systems 2022 VLDB 4.4880409e-05
8,579 Towards Query Optimizer as a Service (QOaaS) in a Unified LakeHouse Ecosystem: Can One QO Rule Them All? 2025 CIDR 4.4877266e-05
8,612 The Case for NLP-Enhanced Database Tuning: Towards Tuning Tools that "Read the Manual" 2021 VLDB 4.4807455e-05
8,660 Learned Offline Query Planning via Bayesian Optimization 2025 SIGMOD 4.4680058e-05
8,714 Tiresias: Enabling Predictive Autonomous Storage and Indexing 2022 VLDB 4.457682e-05
8,780 GEqO: ML-Accelerated Semantic Equivalence Detection 2023 SIGMOD 4.4485568e-05
8,847 Towards Foundation Database Models 2025 CIDR 4.4329366e-05
8,961 T3: Accurate and Fast Performance Prediction for Relational Database Systems With Compiled Decision Trees 2025 SIGMOD 4.4171776e-05
9,012 Hit the Gym: Accelerating Query Execution to Efficiently Bootstrap Behavior Models for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2024 VLDB 4.4059413e-05
9,032 Making Data Clouds Smarter at Keebo: Automated Warehouse Optimization using Data Learning 2023 SIGMOD 4.3998185e-05
9,107 BASE: Bridging the Gap between Cost and Latency for Query Optimization 2023 VLDB 4.3907944e-05
9,138 Phoebe: A Learning-based Checkpoint Optimizer 2021 VLDB 4.3842765e-05
9,141 Automatic SQL Error Mitigation in Oracle 2023 VLDB 4.382234e-05
9,191 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 4.3738237e-05
9,322 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 4.351469e-05
9,350 LIMAO: A Framework for Lifelong Modular Learned Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.3494621e-05
9,581 Low Rank Learning for Offline Query Optimization 2025 SIGMOD 4.3186744e-05
9,662 Efficient Query Re-optimization with Judicious Subquery Selections 2023 SIGMOD 4.3056334e-05
9,692 ROME: Robust Query Optimization via Parallel Multi-Plan Execution 2024 SIGMOD 4.2986161e-05
9,746 Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2025 VLDB 4.2856385e-05
9,787 The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format 2024 SIGMOD 4.2799988e-05
9,824 Athena: An Effective Learning-based Framework for Query Optimizer Performance Improvement 2025 SIGMOD 4.2710095e-05
9,826 PLATON: Top-down R-tree Packing with Learned Partition Policy 2023 SIGMOD 4.2710095e-05
9,841 Machine Unlearning in Learned Databases: An Experimental Analysis 2024 SIGMOD 4.2685233e-05
9,846 HyperBlocker: Accelerating Rule-based Blocking in Entity Resolution using GPUs 2025 VLDB 4.2680295e-05
9,868 Turbo-Charging SPJ Query Plans with Learned Physical Join Operator Selections 2022 VLDB 4.2634472e-05
9,891 DBMS Fitting: Why should we learn what we already know? 2020 CIDR 4.2573619e-05
9,916 Check Out the Big Brain on BRAD: Simplifying Cloud Data Processing with Learned Automated Data Meshes 2023 VLDB 4.2520778e-05
9,931 Wii: Dynamic Budget Reallocation In Index Tuning 2024 SIGMOD 4.2469394e-05
9,956 How to Optimize SQL Queries? A Comparison Between Split, Holistic, and Hybrid Approaches 2025 VLDB 4.2332427e-05
9,959 An Elephant Under The Microscope: Analyzing The Interaction Of Optimizer Components In PostgreSQL 2025 SIGMOD 4.2254157e-05
10,018 GenJoin: Conditional Generative Plan-to-Plan Query Optimizer that Learns from Subplan Hints 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,087 High Performance or Low Memory? An Updatable Learned Index Framework for Time-Space Tradeoff 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,112 SEFRQO: A Self-Evolving Fine-Tuned RAG-Based Query Optimizer 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,125 Understanding and Detecting Query Performance Regression in Practical Index Tuning: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,156 Divo: Learning a Stable and Effective Query Optimizer with a Diverse Workload 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,174 IDAP++: Advancing Divergence-Aware Pruning with Joint Filter and Layer Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,199 R2O: A Dual-Layer Framework for Joint Rewriting and Ordering in Distributed Property Graph Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,203 Reqo: A Comprehensive Learning-Based Cost Model for Robust and Explainable Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,219 Practical Parameterized Query Optimization via Efficient Plan Reuse and List-wise Ranking 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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