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Magic is Relevant

Summary: Extends the magic-sets transformation to relational systems with duplicates, aggregation, grouping, and recursion. Empirically compares with standard nonrecursive optimizers; shows magic-sets often outperform traditional methods as a general optimization technique for data queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2490
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00012047765
Overall Rank
1,423 | 90.12%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
107 Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst 1992 SIGMOD 0.00048363446
448 The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates 1990 VLDB 0.00022922417
454 An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems 1998 PODS 0.00022796106
699 Query Execution Techniques for Caching Expensive Methods 1996 SIGMOD 0.0001794078
1,303 Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around 1994 VLDB 0.00012692678
1,313 Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00012629432
1,547 Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP 2003 SIGMOD 0.00011417795
2,089 Practical Predicate Placement 1994 SIGMOD 9.5689208e-05
2,394 Algebraic Properties of Bag Data Types 1991 VLDB 8.8911581e-05
2,595 WeTune: Automatic Discovery and Verification of Query Rewrite Rules 2022 SIGMOD 8.4725961e-05
3,284 Magic Conditions 1990 PODS 7.2738706e-05
3,417 Overbound and Right-Linear Queries 1991 PODS 7.116211e-05
3,430 Demonstration of the Cosette Automated SQL Prover 2017 SIGMOD 7.0985442e-05
3,926 Magic Shapes for SHACL Validation 2022 VLDB 6.6210393e-05
4,198 Implementation of Magic-sets in a Relational Database System 1994 SIGMOD 6.361961e-05
6,955 Adding Magic to an Optimising Datalog Compiler 2008 SIGMOD 4.8812945e-05
7,015 Changing the Rules: Transformations for Rule-Based Optimizers* 1998 SIGMOD 4.8563411e-05
7,069 Magic-sets Transformation in Nonrecursive Systems 1992 PODS 4.8380576e-05
7,338 Optimizing Recursive Queries with Program Synthesis 2022 SIGMOD 4.7531793e-05
8,012 Compiling Query Constraints 1994 PODS 4.6021663e-05
8,070 Optimizing Iceberg Queries with Complex Joins 2017 SIGMOD 4.5893281e-05
8,339 SlabCity: Whole-Query Optimization using Program Synthesis 2023 VLDB 4.5383933e-05
8,777 Accelerate Distributed Joins with Predicate Transfer 2025 SIGMOD 4.4492064e-05
9,813 Optimizing Nested Recursive Queries 2024 SIGMOD 4.2742278e-05
12,626 Soft Stratification for Magic Set Based Query Evaluation in Deductive Databases 2003 PODS 4.1905499e-05
12,838 Universal Finiteness and Satisfiability 1994 PODS 4.1905499e-05
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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 0.0040465394
16 MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1986 PODS 0.00099936325
79 An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00056010993
102 Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers 1987 VLDB 0.00049592627
130 Optimization of Nested SQL Queries Revisited 1987 SIGMOD 0.00044001626
220 Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives 1988 SIGMOD 0.00033312045
309 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.00028195213
359 On the Power of Magic 1987 PODS 0.00025830228
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