Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer

Summary: Proposes an interpreter for functional rules in a query optimizer to enable rule-based plan transformations without hard-coded strategies. Targets high flexibility and performance for extensible optimizers, bridging flexible rule specification with efficient plan search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7854
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 6.4521318e-05
Overall Rank: 4,093 | 71.56%
DOI: -

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Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
152	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00040979242
220	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00033312045
309	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00028195213
422	Measuring the Complexity of Join Enumeration in Query Optimization	1990	VLDB	0.00023654556
2,114	The Starburst Long Field Manager	1989	VLDB	9.5200665e-05
7,302	Tempura: A General Cost-Based Optimizer Framework for Incremental Data Processing	2021	VLDB	4.763304e-05

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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
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040465394
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071946446
134	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00043070028
196	R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries	1986	VLDB	0.00035240105
220	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00033312045
592	A Rule-Based View of Query Optimization	1987	SIGMOD	0.0001953183
1,436	A Data Management Extension Architecture	1987	SIGMOD	0.00011978473
2,568	Architecture and Implementation of the Darmstadt Database Kernel System	1987	SIGMOD	8.5205422e-05

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