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MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Presents magic sets, a rewriting that turns goal-directed logic programs into bottom-up evaluation to prune irrelevant facts and leverage efficient bulk joins. Compares ad-hoc linear-rule implementations and emphasizes the challenge of proving optimal evaluation strategies. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
743
Venue
PODS
Year
1986
Pagerank
0.00060089598
Overall Rank
16 | 99.90%
DOI
10.1145/6012.15399

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bancilhon_pods86,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '86},
        title = {{MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/6012.15399},
        doi = {10.1145/6012.15399},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Bancilhon, Francois and Maier, David and Sagiv, Yehoshua and Ullman, Jeffrey D.},
        year = {1986}
}

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63 An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00038782376
268 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.00022788687
290 An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems 1998 PODS 0.0002227038
312 A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion 1987 SIGMOD 0.00021733819
313 OPTIMIZING DATALOG PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1987 PODS 0.0002168869
344 On the Power of Magic 1987 PODS 0.00020659405
348 Regular Path Queries with Constraints 1997 PODS 0.00020518814
429 On the Implementation of a Simple Class of Logic Queries for Databases 1986 PODS 0.00018607152
527 The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates 1990 VLDB 0.00017108864
622 LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language 1986 VLDB 0.00015686753
799 Logic Programming With Sets 1987 PODS 0.00013911498
839 Query Optimization by Simulated Annealing 1987 SIGMOD 0.00013692785
972 Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization 2006 SIGMOD 0.00012874501
1,026 Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1) 1987 PODS 0.00012578477
1,037 Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00012494928
1,124 Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around 1994 VLDB 0.00012087356
1,144 PrivateSQL: A Differentially Private SQL Query Engine 2019 VLDB 0.00011999046
1,173 Data Independent Recursion in Deductive Databases 1986 PODS 0.00011822695
1,259 On the Computation of the Transitive Closure of Relational Operators 1986 VLDB 0.00011437537
1,306 An Algorithm For Ordering Subgoals In Nail! 1988 PODS 0.00011234343
1,410 Magic is Relevant 1990 SIGMOD 0.00010853223
1,653 Bounds on the Propagation of Selection into Logic Programs 1987 PODS 0.000101081
1,830 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 9.6641384e-05
1,921 Efficient Evaluation of Right-, Left-, and Multi-Linear Rules 1989 SIGMOD 9.4809066e-05
1,970 Proof-Tree Transformation Theorems and Their Applications 1989 PODS 9.3746238e-05
2,005 Practical Predicate Placement 1994 SIGMOD 9.3203144e-05
2,033 One-Sided Recursions 1987 PODS 9.2819369e-05
2,054 Evaluation Of Database Recursive Logic Programs As Recurrent Function Series 1986 SIGMOD 9.2516006e-05
2,076 A Study of Transitive Closure As a Recursion Mechanism 1987 SIGMOD 9.212586e-05
2,425 Diagnosis of Asynchronous Discrete Event Systems: Datalog to the Rescue! 2005 PODS 8.6005163e-05
2,474 Logic Programming as Constructivism: A Formalization and its Application to Databases 1989 PODS 8.5305658e-05
2,511 Aggregation and Relevance in Deductive Databases 1991 VLDB 8.4854377e-05
2,957 Graph-Theoretic Methods In Database Theory 1990 PODS 7.9200375e-05
3,137 Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters 2020 VLDB 7.7204167e-05
3,199 Query Optimization Techniques for Partitioned Tables 2011 SIGMOD 7.6423984e-05
3,205 On Optimizing Operator Fusion Plans for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML 2018 VLDB 7.6386536e-05
3,307 Magic Conditions 1990 PODS 7.5385358e-05
3,355 A Framework for Testing Safety and Effective Computability of Extended Datalog (Extended Abstract) 1988 SIGMOD 7.4912272e-05
3,565 The Complexity Of Ordering Subgoals 1988 PODS 7.3058198e-05
3,629 Compiling Separable Recursions 1988 SIGMOD 7.2392728e-05
3,650 Implementation of Magic-sets in a Relational Database System 1994 SIGMOD 7.2249961e-05
3,689 Dynamically Distributed Query Evaluation 2001 PODS 7.2010583e-05
3,767 Right-, left- and multi-linear rule transformations that maintain context information 1990 VLDB 7.1421254e-05
4,072 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.9258731e-05
4,099 Argument Reduction by Factoring 1989 VLDB 6.9030568e-05
4,121 Distributed Processing Of Logic Programs 1988 SIGMOD 6.8889854e-05
4,337 Magic Counting Methods 1987 SIGMOD 6.7554367e-05
4,425 EFFICIENT EVALUATION FOR A SUBSET OF RECURSIVE QUERIES (Extended Abstract) 1987 PODS 6.7101609e-05
4,464 Why A Single Parallelization Strategy Is Not Enough In Knowledge Bases 1989 PODS 6.6860087e-05
4,520 Context-Sensitive Program Analysis as Database Queries 2005 PODS 6.6472658e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
343 A Message Passing Framework for Logical Query Evaluation 1986 SIGMOD 0.00020669253
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