Looking Deeply into the Magic Mirror: An Interactive Analysis of Database Index Selection Approaches
Summary: Open-source platform automating DB/workload/cost setup and aggregating multiple SOTA index-selection approaches for reproducible, comparable evaluations. Interactive UI shows per-query index usage and cost effects and lets users edit selections to explore impacts and prototype new strategies. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Stefan Halfpap
- 2. Jan Kossmann
- 3. Rainer Schlosser
- 4. Volker Markl
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| 237 | An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00031726304 |
| 1,017 | Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00014634307 |
| 2,020 | Magic mirror in my hand, which is the best in the land? An Experimental Evaluation of Index Selection Algorithms | 2020 | VLDB | 9.762624e-05 |
| 2,470 | CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads | 2011 | VLDB | 8.7333019e-05 |
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