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R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries

Summary: Validates R*’s distributed-query cost model against measured message, CPU, and I/O costs across network regimes and workloads. Finds concurrency benefits, whole-inner-table shipping superiority, and Bloomjoins’ consistent advantage over semijoins and R*’s best strategies. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
7933
Venue
VLDB
Year
1986
Pagerank
0.00020673706
Overall Rank
342 | 97.66%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{mackert_vldb86,
        title = {{R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries}},
        author = {Mackert, Lothar F. and Lohman, Guy M.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '86},
        volume = {12},
        pages = {149},
        year = {1986}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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89 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.00035031529
95 Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers 1987 VLDB 0.00034607909
192 Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives 1988 SIGMOD 0.00026028406
268 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.00022788687
396 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries 1986 SIGMOD 0.00019287574
419 Cost-based Query Scrambling for Initial Delays 1998 SIGMOD 0.0001879684
457 Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00018120468
474 Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans 1989 SIGMOD 0.00017894953
562 Querying the Internet with PIER 2003 VLDB 0.00016509814
839 Query Optimization by Simulated Annealing 1987 SIGMOD 0.00013692785
862 Spectral Bloom Filters 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013532857
959 Memory-Efficient Hash Joins 2015 VLDB 0.00012953588
1,780 The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor 2005 CIDR 9.7745226e-05
1,974 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.3658402e-05
1,975 Morton Filters: Faster, Space-Efficient Cuckoo Filters via Biasing, Compression, and Decoupled Logical Sparsity 2018 VLDB 9.3645236e-05
2,336 Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing 1996 SIGMOD 8.7302865e-05
2,454 REX: Recursive, Delta-Based Data-Centric Computation 2012 VLDB 8.5560058e-05
3,153 Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer 1988 VLDB 7.6976958e-05
3,494 WANalytics: Analytics for a Geo-Distributed Data-Intensive World 2015 CIDR 7.3642231e-05
3,571 Looking Ahead Makes Query Plans Robust: Making the Initial Case with In-Memory Star Schema Data Warehouse Workloads 2017 VLDB 7.2991953e-05
4,801 REED: Robust, Efficient Filtering and Event Detection in Sensor Networks 2005 VLDB 6.5019548e-05
6,067 Extending Logging for Database Snapshot Refresh 1987 VLDB 5.9887517e-05
7,966 Client-Site Query Extensions 1999 SIGMOD 5.5173328e-05
8,413 Conditional Cuckoo Filters 2021 SIGMOD 5.4306049e-05
9,270 MOCHA: A Self-Extensible Database Middleware System for Distributed Data Sources 2000 SIGMOD 5.2946605e-05
9,961 Threshold Queries in Theory and in the Wild 2022 VLDB 5.1879626e-05
10,690 Dynamic Pruning for Recursive Joins 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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 0.0024089429
59 Differential Files: Their Application To The Maintenance Of Large Data Bases 1976 SIGMOD 0.00040060625
80 Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations 1984 VLDB 0.00036536643
152 Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms 1985 VLDB 0.00029038365
386 Distributed Query Processing In A Relational Data Base System 1978 SIGMOD 0.00019451022
396 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries 1986 SIGMOD 0.00019287574
1,650 Some Experimental Results on Distributed Join Algorithms in a Local Network 1985 VLDB 0.00010115373
1,651 On the Design of a Query Processing Strategy in a Distributed Database Environment 1983 SIGMOD 0.00010110141
1,772 A Heuristic Approach to Distributed Query Processing 1982 VLDB 9.792162e-05
2,170 Query Execution in DIRECT 1979 SIGMOD 9.042724e-05
2,263 Optimization of Nested Queries in a Distributed Relational Database 1984 VLDB 8.8440084e-05
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