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Adopting Worst-Case Optimal Joins in Relational Database Systems

Summary: Presents a practical hash-based worst-case-optimal join requiring no prebuilt ordered indexes, suitable for general-purpose HTAP systems. A hybrid optimizer combines binary and multiway joins, delivering large gains on favorable queries without regressions otherwise. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
12275
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
9.875587e-05
Overall Rank
1,740 | 88.07%
DOI
10.14778/3407790.3407797

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BibTeX Citation

@article{freitag_vldb20,
        title = {{Adopting Worst-Case Optimal Joins in Relational Database Systems}},
        author = {Freitag, Michael and Bandle, Maximilian and Schmidt, Tobias and Kemper, Alfons and Neumann, Thomas},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1891--1904},
        doi = {10.14778/3407790.3407797},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3407790.3407797},
        year = {2020}
}

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23 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00054886415
53 Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing 2000 SIGMOD 0.00041071971
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211 EmptyHeaded: A Relational Engine for Graph Processing 2016 SIGMOD 0.00024797217
241 Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age 2014 SIGMOD 0.00023654664
321 Worst-Case Optimal Join Algorithms: Techniques, Results, and Open Problems 2018 PODS 0.00021283186
358 FAQ: Questions Asked Frequently 2016 PODS 0.00020243592
422 Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance 2020 CIDR 0.00018732744
490 Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System 2015 SIGMOD 0.000175757
809 Optimizing Subgraph Queries by Combining Binary and Worst-Case Optimal Joins 2019 VLDB 0.00013874588
1,246 Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal Low-Memory Dataflows 2018 VLDB 0.00011504088
1,320 From Theory to Practice: Efficient Join Query Evaluation in a Parallel Database System 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011166426
1,549 AJAR: Aggregations and Joins over Annotated Relations 2016 PODS 0.00010390168
1,699 Beyond Worst-case Analysis for Joins with Minesweeper 2014 PODS 9.975915e-05
1,809 Hash joins and hash teams in Microsoft SQL Server 1998 VLDB 9.7034998e-05
1,857 Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond 2015 PODS 9.6047945e-05
2,266 On Functional Aggregate Queries with Additive Inequalities 2019 PODS 8.8391372e-05
2,887 Efficient Multi-way Theta-Join Processing Using MapReduce 2012 VLDB 7.9952432e-05
3,215 Every Row Counts: Combining Sketches and Sampling for Accurate Group-By Result Estimates 2019 CIDR 7.6324234e-05
5,443 Generalized Hash Teams for Join and Group-by 1999 VLDB 6.2177595e-05
6,161 Data Partitioning for In-Memory Systems: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities 2019 CIDR 5.9537202e-05
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