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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
5416
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
7.0560383e-05
Overall Rank
3,476 | 75.85%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3064039

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5,497 SPORES: Sum-Product Optimization via Relational Equality Saturation for Large Scale Linear Algebra 2020 VLDB 5.4741034e-05
5,633 Ready to Leap (by Co-Design)? Join Order Optimisation on Quantum Hardware 2023 SIGMOD 5.3993005e-05
6,060 Efficient Massively Parallel Join Optimization for Large Queries* 2022 SIGMOD 5.2271244e-05
7,486 Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealing for Join Ordering 2024 VLDB 4.7135369e-05
8,078 AJoin: Ad-hoc Stream Joins at Scale 2020 VLDB 4.5873626e-05
8,177 Applicability of Quantum Computing on Database Query Optimization 2022 SIGMOD 4.5630807e-05
10,295 Hybrid Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Large-Scale Join Order Optimisation 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,580 Quantum Data Management in the NISQ Era 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,639 Is Integer Linear Programming All You Need for Deletion Propagation? 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,990 DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040465394
140 Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates 1993 SIGMOD 0.00042289025
388 Optimization of Large Join Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00024654816
400 Randomized Algorithms For Optimizing Large Join Queries 1990 SIGMOD 0.00024308369
422 Measuring the Complexity of Join Enumeration in Query Optimization 1990 VLDB 0.00023654556
782 Optimization of Large Join Queries: Combining Heuristics and Combinatorial Techniques 1989 SIGMOD 0.00016665859
979 Rapid Bushy Join-order Optimization with Cartesian Products 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014871114
991 Improved Unnesting Algorithms for Join Aggregate SQL Queries 1992 VLDB 0.00014797083
1,344 Dynamic Programming Strikes Back 2008 SIGMOD 0.00012477274
1,644 Parametric Query Optimization for Linear and Piecewise Linear Cost Functions 2002 VLDB 0.0001102889
1,725 Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms 1998 VLDB 0.0001073575
1,774 Optimizing Disjunctive Queries with Expensive Predicates 1994 SIGMOD 0.0001059836
1,825 Analysis of Two Existing and One New Dynamic Programming Algorithm for the Generation of Optimal Bushy Join Trees without Cross Products 2006 VLDB 0.00010392367
1,911 Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment 1997 VLDB 0.00010117173
1,990 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions 2003 VLDB 9.8491124e-05
2,216 Skew in Parallel Query Processing 2014 PODS 9.2693784e-05
2,247 Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data 2014 SIGMOD 9.201975e-05
2,652 Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization 2015 VLDB 8.3662031e-05
3,402 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.134261e-05
4,189 On the Complexity of Approximate Query Optimization 2002 PODS 6.3681294e-05
4,255 Parallelizing Query Optimization 2008 VLDB 6.3080082e-05
5,073 An Incremental Anytime Algorithm for Multi-Objective Query Optimization 2015 SIGMOD 5.7118738e-05
6,333 Parallelizing Extensible Query Optimizers 2009 SIGMOD 5.1013149e-05
6,336 Dependency-Aware Reordering for Parallelizing Query Optimization in Multi-Core CPUs 2009 SIGMOD 5.1009488e-05
9,312 Parallelizing Query Optimization on Shared-Nothing Architectures 2016 VLDB 4.353536e-05
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