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: 3281
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 0.00016612832
Overall Rank: 556 | 96.14%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jonathan Goldstein
2. Per-Åke Larson

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
452	Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2018	SIGMOD	0.00018289051
542	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00016875609
660	Exploiting Statistics on Query Expressions for Optimization	2002	SIGMOD	0.00015363874
1,071	Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL	2013	SIGMOD	0.00012424077
1,140	Efficient Exploitation of Similar Subexpressions for Query Processing	2007	SIGMOD	0.00012092506
1,727	Lazy Maintenance of Materialized Views	2007	VLDB	9.9875565e-05
2,126	Data Integration: After the Teenage Years	2017	PODS	9.1870857e-05
2,130	An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-store	2009	SIGMOD	9.1825258e-05
2,610	A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing	2004	VLDB	8.4157384e-05
2,644	On Improving User Response Times in Tableau	2015	SIGMOD	8.379182e-05
2,718	Relaxed Currency and Consistency: How to Say "Good Enough" in SQL	2004	SIGMOD	8.2696302e-05
3,044	Statistics on Views	2003	VLDB	7.8804067e-05
3,265	Cache Tables: Paving the Way for an Adaptive Database Cache	2003	VLDB	7.6475329e-05
3,268	Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions	2004	SIGMOD	7.6459051e-05
3,510	Apache Hive: From MapReduce to Enterprise-grade Big Data Warehousing	2019	SIGMOD	7.4221305e-05
3,534	Caching with "Good Enough": Currency, Consistency, and Completeness	2005	VLDB	7.3950607e-05
3,967	Complete Yet Practical Search for Minimal Query Reformulations Under Constraints	2014	SIGMOD	7.0593757e-05
4,043	Automated Generation of Materialized Views in Oracle	2020	VLDB	7.0040078e-05
4,831	User-Defined Aggregate Functions: Bridging Theory and Practice	2006	SIGMOD	6.5554357e-05
5,489	HMAB: Self-Driving Hierarchy of Bandits for Integrated Physical Database Design Tuning	2023	VLDB	6.2678203e-05
5,532	Crystal: A Unified Cache Storage System for Analytical Databases	2021	VLDB	6.2448333e-05
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5,639	Opportunistic Physical Design for Big Data Analytics	2014	SIGMOD	6.2030946e-05
5,949	Parallelizing Extensible Query Optimizers	2009	SIGMOD	6.0928447e-05
6,001	Efficient Detection of Empty-Result Queries	2006	VLDB	6.0741364e-05
6,273	View Matching for Outer-Join Views	2005	VLDB	5.9949378e-05
6,310	Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring	2007	CIDR	5.9777841e-05
6,380	Revisiting Reuse in Main Memory Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	5.9592606e-05
6,561	Stacked Indexed Views in Microsoft SQL Server	2005	SIGMOD	5.8970869e-05
6,918	Optimizing Recursive Queries with Program Synthesis	2022	SIGMOD	5.8101318e-05
7,006	Query Evaluation using Overlapping Views: Completeness and Efficiency	2006	SIGMOD	5.7850815e-05
7,134	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	5.749141e-05
7,177	DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System	2017	SIGMOD	5.7383323e-05
7,520	Plan Stitch: Harnessing the Best of Many Plans	2018	VLDB	5.6603314e-05
7,545	ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads	2017	SIGMOD	5.6559638e-05
7,798	Krypton: Real-time Serving and Analytical SQL Engine at ByteDance	2023	VLDB	5.6035684e-05
8,212	SageDB: An Instance-Optimized Data Analytics System	2022	VLDB	5.534262e-05
8,218	WWHow! Freeing Data Storage from Cages	2013	CIDR	5.5315915e-05
8,291	Making RDBMSs Efficient on Graph Workloads Through Predefined Joins	2022	VLDB	5.5145966e-05
8,364	Optimization of Common Table Expressions in MPP Database Systems	2015	VLDB	5.4995554e-05
8,680	GEqO: ML-Accelerated Semantic Equivalence Detection	2023	SIGMOD	5.4530452e-05
8,772	Provenance-based Data Skipping	2022	VLDB	5.4314273e-05
9,271	Materializing Views with Minimal Size To Answer Queries	2003	PODS	5.3572577e-05
9,298	In-Browser Interactive SQL Analytics with Afterburner	2017	SIGMOD	5.351019e-05
10,657	STsCache: An Efficient Semantic Caching Scheme for Time-series Data Workloads Based on Hybrid Storage	2025	VLDB	5.1725247e-05
10,767	SIEVE: Effective Filtered Vector Search with Collection of Indexes	2025	VLDB	5.1725247e-05
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11,196	A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation	2023	SIGMOD	5.1725247e-05
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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
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037898166
85	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00035865404
166	Query Transformation for PSJ-queries	1987	VLDB	0.00027946882
196	Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments	1995	VLDB	0.00025906792
208	Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation	1995	VLDB	0.00025156518
531	Computing Queries from Derived Relations	1985	VLDB	0.00017082692
548	Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views	1996	VLDB	0.00016771169
638	Materialized Views In Oracle	1998	VLDB	0.00015566309
868	Rewriting Aggregate Queries Using Views	1999	PODS	0.00013556423
912	A Scalable Algorithm for Answering Queries Using Views	2000	VLDB	0.00013338177
1,024	Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables	2000	SIGMOD	0.00012672576
2,080	Deciding Equivalences among Aggregate Queries	1998	PODS	9.2718363e-05
2,294	Querying Aggregate Data	1999	PODS	8.8728473e-05

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