Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealing for Join Ordering

Summary: Native encoding of join ordering for quantum-inspired digital annealers, shrinking encoding size and beating MILP/quantum encodings. With a probabilistic readout to recover valid join orders, scales to ~50 relations and improves result quality over standard heuristics. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13919
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,910 | 45.74%
DOI: 10.14778/3632093.3632112

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Manuel Schönberger (Technical University of Applied Sciences Regensburg)
2. Immanuel Trummer (Cornell University)
3. Wolfgang Mauerer (Siemens; Technical University of Applied Sciences Regensburg)

BibTeX Citation

@article{schonberger_vldb24,
        title = {{Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealing for Join Ordering}},
        author = {Schönberger, Manuel and Trummer, Immanuel and Mauerer, Wolfgang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {3},
        pages = {511--524},
        doi = {10.14778/3632093.3632112},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3632093.3632112},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,969	Hybrid Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Large-Scale Join Order Optimisation	2026	VLDB	5.1845938e-05
10,319	Large-Scale Multiple Query Optimisation with Incremental Quantum(-Inspired) Annealing	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,058	A Demonstration of Q^2O: Quantum-augmented Query Optimizer	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
84	Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning	2019	CIDR	0.00035838391
143	Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries	1986	VLDB	0.0002959213
154	Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer	2019	VLDB	0.00028726181
378	Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical	2021	SIGMOD	0.00019638121
463	Optimization of Large Join Queries	1988	SIGMOD	0.00018064961
479	Randomized Algorithms For Optimizing Large Join Queries	1990	SIGMOD	0.00017789732
698	Optimization of Large Join Queries: Combining Heuristics and Combinatorial Techniques	1989	SIGMOD	0.00014879675
774	Rapid Bushy Join-order Optimization with Cartesian Products	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014123979
1,013	Dynamic Programming Strikes Back	2008	SIGMOD	0.00012652549
1,286	Adaptive Optimization of Very Large Join Queries	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011320736
1,298	Analysis of Two Existing and One New Dynamic Programming Algorithm for the Generation of Optimal Bushy Join Trees without Cross Products	2006	VLDB	0.00011259156
1,743	Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment	1997	VLDB	9.8702732e-05
3,158	Solving the Join Ordering Problem via Mixed Integer Linear Programming	2017	SIGMOD	7.6888079e-05
3,319	Multiple Query Optimization on the D-Wave 2X Adiabatic Quantum Computer	2016	VLDB	7.5236413e-05
3,553	On the Complexity of Approximate Query Optimization	2002	PODS	7.3175599e-05
3,813	Query Simplification: Graceful Degradation for Join-Order Optimization	2009	SIGMOD	7.1051056e-05
4,012	Opportunities for Quantum Acceleration of Databases: Optimization of Queries and Transaction Schedules	2023	VLDB	6.9578554e-05
5,626	Ready to Leap (by Co-Design)? Join Order Optimisation on Quantum Hardware	2023	SIGMOD	6.1440728e-05
7,671	1,000 Tables Under the From	2009	VLDB	5.5708452e-05
9,446	Parallelizing Query Optimization on Shared-Nothing Architectures	2016	VLDB	5.2667452e-05

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