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Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst

Summary: Presents Starburst's extensible Query Rewrite as a novel optimization phase with a rule-based suite yielding equivalent, faster queries. Introduces production rule engine for rule selection and execution; experiments show orders-of-magnitude speedups, underscoring Query Rewrite as essential to modern DB optimization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2567
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1992
Pagerank
0.00048363446
Overall Rank
107 | 99.26%
DOI
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040465394
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
135 On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.0004273413
448 The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates 1990 VLDB 0.00022922417
898 Query Graphs, Implementing Trees, and Freely-Reorderable Outerjoins 1990 SIGMOD 0.00015476243
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