Predicate Pushdown for Data Science Pipelines

Summary: MagicPush uses a search-verification approach to predicate pushdown in data science pipelines, discovering input-space predicates and proving pushdown preserves outputs, even with non-relational operators and UDFs. Evaluations on TPC-H and 200 real-world GitHub Notebook pipelines show it beats a strong rule-based baseline, discovers new pushdown opportunities, and yields up to 99% running-time reduction in 42 pipelines while matching baseline opportunities elsewhere. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6640
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.4784651e-05
Overall Rank: 8,625 | 40.06%
DOI: 10.1145/3589281

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335	Optimization of Real Conjunctive Queries	1993	PODS	0.00027012705
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1,608	Qd-tree: Learning Data Layouts for Big Data Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011169837
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4,645	Aggify: Lifting the Curse of Cursor Loops using Custom Aggregates	2020	SIGMOD	6.0190618e-05
4,672	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	6.001444e-05
4,676	Automatically Leveraging MapReduce Frameworks for Data-Intensive Applications	2018	SIGMOD	5.9992323e-05
6,152	Crystal: A Unified Cache Storage System for Analytical Databases	2021	VLDB	5.1802666e-05
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6,703	YeSQL: “You extend SQL” with Rich and Highly Performant User-Defined Functions in Relational Databases	2022	VLDB	4.9514593e-05
7,278	Sia: Optimizing Queries using Learned Predicates	2021	SIGMOD	4.7720613e-05
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9,818	Generating Application-Specific Data Layouts for In-memory Databases	2019	VLDB	4.2733415e-05

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