QueryBooster: Improving SQL Performance Using Middleware Services for Human-Centered Query Rewriting

Summary: QueryBooster: middleware for human-centered SQL rewriting in black-box app+DB stacks using an expressive VarSQL rule language or example-based intents. Generalizes examples into rewrite rules, suggests candidates, and demonstrates notable end-to-end performance gains in user studies and workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13133
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.4600815e-05
Overall Rank: 5,525 | 61.57%
DOI: 10.14778/3611479.3611497

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Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,472	LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency	2025	VLDB	7.0639229e-05
7,020	LLM for Data Management	2024	VLDB	4.8595728e-05
7,035	R-Bot: An LLM-based Query Rewrite System	2025	VLDB	4.8548467e-05
9,993	Leveraging Query Optimizers to Verify the Soundness of LLM-based Query Rewrites for Real-World Workloads, and More!	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,778	GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,290	Demo of QueryBooster: Supporting Middleware-Based SQL Query Rewriting as a Service	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
106	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst	1992	SIGMOD	0.00048400734
112	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00047045036
132	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00042994082
640	Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical	2021	SIGMOD	0.00018759152
2,099	Axiomatic Foundations and Algorithms for Deciding Semantic Equivalences of SQL Queries	2018	VLDB	9.5479391e-05
2,596	WeTune: Automatic Discovery and Verification of Query Rewrite Rules	2022	SIGMOD	8.4729982e-05
3,248	A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search	2022	VLDB	7.3258782e-05
3,478	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations	2018	VLDB	7.054159e-05
4,032	Rule Languages and Internal Algebras for Rule-Based Optimizers	1996	SIGMOD	6.5117637e-05
7,127	Guided automated learning for query workload re-optimization	2019	VLDB	4.8230386e-05
7,658	PgCuckoo: Laying Plan Eggs in PostgreSQL's Nest	2019	SIGMOD	4.6869093e-05
8,955	Shedding Light on Opaque Application Queries	2021	SIGMOD	4.4215357e-05

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