Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources

Summary: Garlic's optimizer extends rule-based query optimization to heterogeneous data sources using wrapper-provided capabilities and middleware rules. Improves plan quality, enables incremental deployment, and models diverse source capabilities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8428
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 0.00041016476
Overall Rank: 151 | 98.96%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 53 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,713	Database Patchwork on the Internet	1999	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,742	nD-SQL: A Multi-dimensional Language for Interoperability and OLAP	1998	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,745	TOPAZ: a Cost-Based, Rule-Driven, Multi-Phase Parallelizer	1998	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 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	0.0040449103
127	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00044642203
132	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00042994082
219	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00033244259
307	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00028211308
346	Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026656272
421	Query Optimization in the Presence of Foreign Functions	1993	VLDB	0.00023711553
976	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.0001489085
1,321	Intelligent Integration of Information	1993	SIGMOD	0.0001261238
1,839	Query Optimization in Heterogeneous DBMS	1992	VLDB	0.00010349298
2,344	Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing	1996	SIGMOD	8.9992357e-05
2,391	Processing Queries Over Generalization Hierarchies in a Multidatabase System	1983	VLDB	8.9022915e-05
3,404	EROC: A Toolkit for Building NEATO Query Optimizers	1996	VLDB	7.1321923e-05
4,099	Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer	1988	VLDB	6.4545871e-05
4,241	Calibrating the Query Optimizer Cost Model of IRO-DB, an Object-Oriented Federated Database System	1996	VLDB	6.3317303e-05

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