I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server
Summary: Shows Microsoft SQL Server’s bitmap pre-filtering plus pull-based execution and the Cascades optimizer effectively realizes Yannakakis-like, instance-optimal join behavior in practice. Exposes overlooked intermediate-result pre-filtering opportunities yielding near semi-robust plans and reframes industrial optimizations as a rich research agenda. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Hangdong Zhao (Microsoft)
- 2. Yuanyuan Tian (Microsoft)
- 3. Rana Alotaibi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
- 4. Bailu Ding (Microsoft)
- 5. Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft)
- 6. Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez (Microsoft)
- 7. Vassilis Papadimos (Microsoft)
- 8. Ernesto Cervantes Juárez (Microsoft)
- 9. Cesar Galindo-Legaria (Microsoft)
- 10. Carlo Curino (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{zhao_cidr26,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '26},
title = {{I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Zhao, Hangdong and Tian, Yuanyuan and Alotaibi, Rana and Ding, Bailu and Bruno, Nicolas and Camacho-Rodríguez, Jesús and Papadimos, Vassilis and Juárez, Ernesto Cervantes and Galindo-Legaria, Cesar and Curino, Carlo},
year = {2026}
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