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Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data

Summary: Orca proposes a modular, portable query-optimizer architecture for big data, reusable across Greenplum and HAWQ. It merges state-of-the-art optimization with original research, delivering a portable framework and measurable performance advantages over competing systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4916
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00010203114
Overall Rank
1,621 | 88.89%
DOI
10.1145/2558855.2559637

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{soliman_sigmod14,
        title = {{Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data}},
        author = {Soliman, Mohamed A. and Antova, Lyublena and Raghavan, Venkatesh and El-Helw, Amr and Gu, Zhongxian and Shen, Entong and Caragea, George C. and Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos and Rahman, Foyzur and Petropoulos, Michalis and Waas, Florian and Narayanan, Sivaramakrishnan and Krikellas, Konstantinos and Baldwin, Rhonda},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2558855.2559637},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2558855.2559637},
        year = {2014}
}

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11,007 GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,290 Presto’s History-based Query Optimizer 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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11,901 How Can Reasoners Simplify Database Querying (And Why Haven’t They Done It Yet)? 2018 PODS 5.093636e-05
12,046 Datometry Hyper-Q: Bridging the Gap Between Real-Time and Historical Analytics 2016 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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