Charting the Design Space of Query Execution using VOILA

Summary: VOILA is a DSL-driven framework to synthesize diverse query engines and formalize their semantics for automated exploration of the engine design space. Backends enable data-centric compilation and vectorized execution (AVX-512); thousands of engines were generated, delivering near state-of-the-art performance and up to 35.5x speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12298
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.1462707e-05
Overall Rank: 6,218 | 56.79%
DOI: 10.14778/3447689.3447709

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Authors

1. Tim Gubner
2. Peter Boncz

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6,525	Database Technology for the Masses: Sub-Operators as First-Class Entities	2021	VLDB	5.0223854e-05
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7,692	Bringing Compiling Databases to RISC Architectures	2023	VLDB	4.6717437e-05
8,477	Excalibur: A Virtual Machine for Adaptive Fine-grained JIT-Compiled Query Execution based on VOILA	2023	VLDB	4.4971772e-05
9,925	Darwin: Scale-In Stream Processing	2022	CIDR	4.2503199e-05
10,384	Data Chunk Compaction in Vectorized Execution	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,901	Welding Natural Language Queries to Analytics IRs with LLMs	2024	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076209479
59	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.0006445664
185	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00036529607
220	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00033312045
343	Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions	2002	SIGMOD	0.00026756534
350	Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs	2009	VLDB	0.00026368305
403	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00024176677
417	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023734582
584	Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems	2012	VLDB	0.00019700451
848	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask	2018	VLDB	0.00015933538
959	Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015034808
1,016	Memory-Efficient Hash Joins	2015	VLDB	0.00014630024
1,077	What happens during a Join? Dissecting CPU and Memory Optimization Effects	2000	VLDB	0.00014224986
1,692	A Seven-Dimensional Analysis of Hashing Methods and its Implications on Query Processing	2016	VLDB	0.00010887129
1,751	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00010673874
1,800	An Experimental Comparison of Thirteen Relational Equi-Joins in Main Memory	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010494121
1,865	Relaxed Operator Fusion for In-Memory Databases: Making Compilation, Vectorization, and Prefetching Work Together At Last	2018	VLDB	0.00010271333
2,019	Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware	2016	VLDB	9.7814175e-05
2,153	The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models	2018	SIGMOD	9.418541e-05
2,383	How to Architect a Query Compiler	2016	SIGMOD	8.9198524e-05
2,741	Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting	2015	SIGMOD	8.1977375e-05
2,843	How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited	2018	SIGMOD	8.0334687e-05
3,053	Fast, Randomized Join-Order Selection — Why Use Transformations?	1994	VLDB	7.6482987e-05
3,179	Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining	2016	VLDB	7.4350144e-05
3,225	Interleaving with Coroutines: A Practical Approach for Robust Index Joins	2018	VLDB	7.3487507e-05
8,368	Interleaved Multi-Vectorizing	2020	VLDB	4.5295768e-05
9,671	BIPie: Fast Selection and Aggregation on Encoded Data using Operator Specialization	2018	SIGMOD	4.302191e-05

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