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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
2496
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00024308369
Overall Rank
400 | 97.23%
DOI
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27 Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining 1994 VLDB 0.00080846213
51 Including Group-By in Query Optimization 1994 VLDB 0.00067060283
63 Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates 1996 SIGMOD 0.00063595699
457 Cost-based Query Scrambling for Initial Delays 1998 SIGMOD 0.00022699974
811 Left-Deep Vs. Bushy Trees: An Analysis Of Strategy Spaces And Its Implications For Query Optimization 1991 SIGMOD 0.00016385568
870 Parametric Query Optimization 1992 VLDB 0.00015709369
1,234 Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: An Exercise in Utility 1999 PODS 0.00013115865
2,051 Optimization of Multi-Way Join Queries for Parallel Execution 1991 VLDB 9.6871984e-05
2,268 Extending the Search Strategy in a Query Optimizer 1991 VLDB 9.1524415e-05
2,349 Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing 1996 SIGMOD 8.9903567e-05
2,867 Optimization of Queries with User-defined Predicates 1996 VLDB 7.9931252e-05
3,053 Fast, Randomized Join-Order Selection — Why Use Transformations? 1994 VLDB 7.6482987e-05
3,056 Multiple Join Size Estimation by Virtual Domains (extended abstract) 1993 PODS 7.6459653e-05
3,402 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.134261e-05
3,407 EROC: A Toolkit for Building NEATO Query Optimizers 1996 VLDB 7.1253175e-05
3,476 Solving the Join Ordering Problem via Mixed Integer Linear Programming 2017 SIGMOD 7.0560383e-05
4,255 Parallelizing Query Optimization 2008 VLDB 6.3080082e-05
4,539 Integration of Spatial Join Algorithms for Processing Multiple Inputs 1999 SIGMOD 6.0982886e-05
4,717 Reducing Multidatabase Query Response Time By Tree Balancing 1995 SIGMOD 5.966866e-05
4,734 Query Simplification: Graceful Degradation for Join-Order Optimization 2009 SIGMOD 5.9553181e-05
4,934 Static Optimization of Conjunctive Queries with Sliding Windows Over Infinite Streams 2004 SIGMOD 5.815192e-05
4,944 A Cost Model for Clustered Object-Oriented Databases 1995 VLDB 5.8120276e-05
4,945 Lifting the Burden of History from Adaptive Query Processing 2004 VLDB 5.8115261e-05
5,091 Join Query Optimization Techniques for Complex Event Processing Applications 2018 VLDB 5.7010894e-05
5,555 Network-Aware Query Processing for Stream-based Applications 2004 VLDB 5.4405244e-05
6,060 Efficient Massively Parallel Join Optimization for Large Queries* 2022 SIGMOD 5.2271244e-05
6,073 Window Query-Optimal Clustering of Spatial Objects 1995 PODS 5.2215154e-05
6,336 Dependency-Aware Reordering for Parallelizing Query Optimization in Multi-Core CPUs 2009 SIGMOD 5.1009488e-05
6,654 Efficient Evaluation of Queries in a Mediator for WebSources 2002 SIGMOD 4.9704407e-05
7,486 Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealing for Join Ordering 2024 VLDB 4.7135369e-05
7,794 Optimization of Object-Oriented Recursive Queries using Cost-Controlled Strategies 1992 SIGMOD 4.6446441e-05
8,192 The Fittest Survives: An Adaptive Approach to Query Optimization 1995 VLDB 4.5575625e-05
8,720 A Fast Randomized Algorithm for Multi-Objective Query Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 4.4563359e-05
9,312 Parallelizing Query Optimization on Shared-Nothing Architectures 2016 VLDB 4.353536e-05
10,295 Hybrid Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Large-Scale Join Order Optimisation 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,392 Optimization of Multi-Domain Queries on the Web 2008 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040465394
144 Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00041430126
220 Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives 1988 SIGMOD 0.00033312045
388 Optimization of Large Join Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00024654816
569 Query Optimization by Simulated Annealing 1987 SIGMOD 0.00019912758
782 Optimization of Large Join Queries: Combining Heuristics and Combinatorial Techniques 1989 SIGMOD 0.00016665859
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