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Solving the Join Ordering Problem via Mixed Integer Linear Programming

Summary: Join ordering as MILP with binary operands/intermediates and linear constraints enforcing plans and costs. Integrated into Postgres, it uses MILP solvers' anytime search to optimize up to 40 tables in under a min, beats traditional optimizers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5415
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
7.0625972e-05
Overall Rank
3,474 | 75.84%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3064039

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5,487 SPORES: Sum-Product Optimization via Relational Equality Saturation for Large Scale Linear Algebra 2020 VLDB 5.4791501e-05
5,626 Ready to Leap (by Co-Design)? Join Order Optimisation on Quantum Hardware 2023 SIGMOD 5.4044935e-05
6,056 Efficient Massively Parallel Join Optimization for Large Queries* 2022 SIGMOD 5.2321475e-05
7,486 Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealing for Join Ordering 2024 VLDB 4.7180617e-05
8,075 AJoin: Ad-hoc Stream Joins at Scale 2020 VLDB 4.5917655e-05
8,176 Applicability of Quantum Computing on Database Query Optimization 2022 SIGMOD 4.5674639e-05
10,283 Hybrid Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Large-Scale Join Order Optimisation 2026 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,571 Quantum Data Management in the NISQ Era 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,631 Is Integer Linear Programming All You Need for Deletion Propagation? 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,987 DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering 2024 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
139 Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates 1993 SIGMOD 0.00042299329
387 Optimization of Large Join Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.0002471967
399 Randomized Algorithms For Optimizing Large Join Queries 1990 SIGMOD 0.00024315433
423 Measuring the Complexity of Join Enumeration in Query Optimization 1990 VLDB 0.00023669348
784 Optimization of Large Join Queries: Combining Heuristics and Combinatorial Techniques 1989 SIGMOD 0.00016675823
978 Rapid Bushy Join-order Optimization with Cartesian Products 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014881073
990 Improved Unnesting Algorithms for Join Aggregate SQL Queries 1992 VLDB 0.00014809094
1,341 Dynamic Programming Strikes Back 2008 SIGMOD 0.00012486285
1,647 Parametric Query Optimization for Linear and Piecewise Linear Cost Functions 2002 VLDB 0.00011033757
1,726 Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms 1998 VLDB 0.00010741411
1,772 Optimizing Disjunctive Queries with Expensive Predicates 1994 SIGMOD 0.0001061019
1,826 Analysis of Two Existing and One New Dynamic Programming Algorithm for the Generation of Optimal Bushy Join Trees without Cross Products 2006 VLDB 0.00010400425
1,911 Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment 1997 VLDB 0.00010120234
1,986 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions 2003 VLDB 9.8536784e-05
2,212 Skew in Parallel Query Processing 2014 PODS 9.2771827e-05
2,249 Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data 2014 SIGMOD 9.2034693e-05
2,659 Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization 2015 VLDB 8.3604734e-05
3,408 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.1288167e-05
4,194 On the Complexity of Approximate Query Optimization 2002 PODS 6.3697822e-05
4,261 Parallelizing Query Optimization 2008 VLDB 6.31244e-05
5,075 An Incremental Anytime Algorithm for Multi-Objective Query Optimization 2015 SIGMOD 5.7172118e-05
6,334 Dependency-Aware Reordering for Parallelizing Query Optimization in Multi-Core CPUs 2009 SIGMOD 5.1058462e-05
6,337 Parallelizing Extensible Query Optimizers 2009 SIGMOD 5.1053757e-05
9,305 Parallelizing Query Optimization on Shared-Nothing Architectures 2016 VLDB 4.3577129e-05
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