The View-Selection Problem Has an Exponential-Time Lower Bound for Conjunctive Queries and Views

Summary: Shows that view-selection for conjunctive queries and views has an exponential-time lower bound under the practical sum-cost model, extending prior product-cost impossibility results. Hence no data-independent algorithm can always output polynomially many views and be optimal. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1261
Venue: PODS
Year: 2002
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Overall Rank: 13,768 | 4.32%
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1. Rada Chirkova

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9,263	Materializing Views with Minimal Size To Answer Queries	2003	PODS	4.3648789e-05

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