Sloth: Being Lazy is a Virtue (When Issuing Database Queries)

Summary: Sloth extends lazy evaluation to expose cross-control-flow query batching during application execution. No manual hints or static analysis; up to 3x page-load-time reduction on 100+ benchmarks from two large open-source apps by delaying computation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4802
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 6.391976e-05
Overall Rank: 4,166 | 71.02%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2593672

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2,818	Implicit Parallelism through Deep Language Embedding	2015	SIGMOD	8.0665558e-05
2,954	Magpie: Python at Speed and Scale using Cloud Backends	2021	CIDR	7.8262582e-05
3,409	SQLCheck: Automated Detection and Diagnosis of SQL Anti-Patterns	2020	SIGMOD	7.1270252e-05
4,633	Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores	2016	SIGMOD	6.0340758e-05
6,245	Iterative Query Processing based on Unified Optimization Techniques	2019	SIGMOD	5.1391202e-05
6,692	WeBridge: Synthesizing Stored Procedures for Large-Scale Real-World Web Applications	2024	SIGMOD	4.9599916e-05
6,988	CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment	2020	CIDR	4.8718019e-05
9,823	Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases	2019	CIDR	4.2754485e-05
11,542	View-Driven Optimization of Database-Backed Web Applications	2020	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
940	SharedDB: Killing One Thousand Queries With One Stone	2012	VLDB	0.00015173166
1,456	Rewriting Procedures for Batched Bindings	2008	VLDB	0.00011899772
3,308	Automatic Partitioning of Database Applications	2012	VLDB	7.2422925e-05
5,818	Holistic Optimization by Prefetching Query Results	2012	SIGMOD	5.3154373e-05
6,220	Optimization of Query Streams Using Semantic Prefetching	2004	SIGMOD	5.1527722e-05
6,531	Quantum Databases	2013	CIDR	5.0246096e-05

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