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: 13134
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.4555519e-05
Overall Rank: 5,533 | 61.55%
DOI: 10.14778/3611479.3611497

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,465	LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency	2025	VLDB	7.0668293e-05
7,016	LLM for Data Management	2024	VLDB	4.8561622e-05
7,030	R-Bot: An LLM-based Query Rewrite System	2025	VLDB	4.8518029e-05
9,992	Leveraging Query Optimizers to Verify the Soundness of LLM-based Query Rewrites for Real-World Workloads, and More!	2026	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
10,784	GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,292	Demo of QueryBooster: Supporting Middleware-Based SQL Query Rewriting as a Service	2023	VLDB	4.1905499e-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
107	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst	1992	SIGMOD	0.00048363446
112	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00047010908
134	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00043070028
634	Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical	2021	SIGMOD	0.00018844568
2,097	Axiomatic Foundations and Algorithms for Deciding Semantic Equivalences of SQL Queries	2018	VLDB	9.5439744e-05
2,595	WeTune: Automatic Discovery and Verification of Query Rewrite Rules	2022	SIGMOD	8.4725961e-05
3,241	A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search	2022	VLDB	7.32744e-05
3,483	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations	2018	VLDB	7.0493668e-05
4,039	Rule Languages and Internal Algebras for Rule-Based Optimizers	1996	SIGMOD	6.5056258e-05
7,126	Guided automated learning for query workload re-optimization	2019	VLDB	4.8184704e-05
7,651	PgCuckoo: Laying Plan Eggs in PostgreSQL's Nest	2019	SIGMOD	4.6833023e-05
8,960	Shedding Light on Opaque Application Queries	2021	SIGMOD	4.4173276e-05

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