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Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives

Summary: Grammar-like functional rules represent query-optimization alternatives as data, with parameterized productions and conditions. Terminals are runtime primitives; non-terminals form plans with cost vectors and a glue to satisfy input properties. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2372
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1988
Pagerank
0.00033244259
Overall Rank
219 | 98.48%
DOI
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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
30 Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations 1984 VLDB 0.00078672446
44 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00071838587
78 Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms 1985 VLDB 0.00056413752
132 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00042994082
196 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00035261496
317 Distributed Query Processing In A Relational Data Base System 1978 SIGMOD 0.00027980992
594 A Rule-Based View of Query Optimization 1987 SIGMOD 0.00019534507
1,437 A Data Management Extension Architecture 1987 SIGMOD 0.00011981662
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3,537 Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMSs 1983 SIGMOD 6.9983995e-05
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