Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution

Summary: Fast, scalable algorithm to decide when a query can use materialized views (selections, joins, final group-by), integrated into transformation-based optimizers. Fully cost-based, it generates multiple rewrites and picks the best; SQL Server experiments show strong performance and scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3280
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 0.00017468889
Overall Rank: 731 | 94.92%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Jonathan Goldstein
2. Per-Åke Larson

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 51 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,476	Materialized Views in Probabilistic Databases	2007	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
82	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00054402763
138	Query Transformation for PSJ-queries	1987	VLDB	0.00042334092
158	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00040071492
218	Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments	1995	VLDB	0.00033503922
248	Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation	1995	VLDB	0.00030785339
416	Computing Queries from Derived Relations	1985	VLDB	0.0002380776
468	Materialized Views In Oracle	1998	VLDB	0.00022411821
584	Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views	1996	VLDB	0.0001971526
971	Rewriting Aggregate Queries Using Views	1999	PODS	0.00014925576
1,059	Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014382575
1,155	A Scalable Algorithm for Answering Queries Using Views	2000	VLDB	0.00013616518
2,103	Deciding Equivalences among Aggregate Queries	1998	PODS	9.5385023e-05
2,475	Querying Aggregate Data	1999	PODS	8.7017602e-05

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