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Randomized Algorithms For Optimizing Large Join Queries

Summary: Randomized search strategies (SA, II) optimize large project–select–join queries. Two-Phase Optimization (SA+II) improves quality and runtime; SA more often yields lower-cost plans, explained by a cup-shaped cost landscape with a shallow bottom. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2495
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00024315433
Overall Rank
399 | 97.23%
DOI
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27 Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining 1994 VLDB 0.00080736878
51 Including Group-By in Query Optimization 1994 VLDB 0.00067123727
64 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00063612837
456 Cost-based Query Scrambling for Initial Delays 1998 SIGMOD 0.00022717134
813 Left-Deep Vs. Bushy Trees: An Analysis Of Strategy Spaces And Its Implications For Query Optimization 1991 SIGMOD 0.0001639584
876 Parametric Query Optimization 1992 VLDB 0.00015716096
1,236 Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: An Exercise in Utility 1999 PODS 0.00013117798
2,044 Optimization of Multi-Way Join Queries for Parallel Execution 1991 VLDB 9.6953608e-05
2,263 Extending the Search Strategy in a Query Optimizer 1991 VLDB 9.1612588e-05
2,344 Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing 1996 SIGMOD 8.9992357e-05
2,860 Optimization of Queries with User-defined Predicates 1996 VLDB 7.9934503e-05
3,048 Fast, Randomized Join-Order Selection — Why Use Transformations? 1994 VLDB 7.6543116e-05
3,053 Multiple Join Size Estimation by Virtual Domains (extended abstract) 1993 PODS 7.64969e-05
3,404 EROC: A Toolkit for Building NEATO Query Optimizers 1996 VLDB 7.1321923e-05
3,408 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.1288167e-05
3,474 Solving the Join Ordering Problem via Mixed Integer Linear Programming 2017 SIGMOD 7.0625972e-05
4,261 Parallelizing Query Optimization 2008 VLDB 6.31244e-05
4,529 Integration of Spatial Join Algorithms for Processing Multiple Inputs 1999 SIGMOD 6.1078661e-05
4,722 Reducing Multidatabase Query Response Time By Tree Balancing 1995 SIGMOD 5.9717332e-05
4,738 Query Simplification: Graceful Degradation for Join-Order Optimization 2009 SIGMOD 5.9600502e-05
4,930 Static Optimization of Conjunctive Queries with Sliding Windows Over Infinite Streams 2004 SIGMOD 5.8213082e-05
4,933 A Cost Model for Clustered Object-Oriented Databases 1995 VLDB 5.8205625e-05
4,943 Lifting the Burden of History from Adaptive Query Processing 2004 VLDB 5.8170713e-05
5,097 Join Query Optimization Techniques for Complex Event Processing Applications 2018 VLDB 5.7011496e-05
5,547 Network-Aware Query Processing for Stream-based Applications 2004 VLDB 5.4457955e-05
6,056 Efficient Massively Parallel Join Optimization for Large Queries* 2022 SIGMOD 5.2321475e-05
6,076 Window Query-Optimal Clustering of Spatial Objects 1995 PODS 5.223696e-05
6,334 Dependency-Aware Reordering for Parallelizing Query Optimization in Multi-Core CPUs 2009 SIGMOD 5.1058462e-05
6,655 Efficient Evaluation of Queries in a Mediator for WebSources 2002 SIGMOD 4.9724958e-05
7,486 Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealing for Join Ordering 2024 VLDB 4.7180617e-05
7,793 Optimization of Object-Oriented Recursive Queries using Cost-Controlled Strategies 1992 SIGMOD 4.6489537e-05
8,194 The Fittest Survives: An Adaptive Approach to Query Optimization 1995 VLDB 4.5618179e-05
8,725 A Fast Randomized Algorithm for Multi-Objective Query Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 4.4600243e-05
9,305 Parallelizing Query Optimization on Shared-Nothing Architectures 2016 VLDB 4.3577129e-05
10,283 Hybrid Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Large-Scale Join Order Optimisation 2026 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,384 Optimization of Multi-Domain Queries on the Web 2008 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
143 Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00041510555
219 Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives 1988 SIGMOD 0.00033244259
387 Optimization of Large Join Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.0002471967
566 Query Optimization by Simulated Annealing 1987 SIGMOD 0.00019970535
784 Optimization of Large Join Queries: Combining Heuristics and Combinatorial Techniques 1989 SIGMOD 0.00016675823
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