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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
4803
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
6.3859482e-05
Overall Rank
4,164 | 71.07%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2593672

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934 SharedDB: Killing One Thousand Queries With One Stone 2012 VLDB 0.00015201246
1,457 Rewriting Procedures for Batched Bindings 2008 VLDB 0.00011891025
3,312 Automatic Partitioning of Database Applications 2012 VLDB 7.2356116e-05
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6,217 Optimization of Query Streams Using Semantic Prefetching 2004 SIGMOD 5.1478286e-05
6,529 Quantum Databases 2013 CIDR 5.0197832e-05
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