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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
8429
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
0.00040979242
Overall Rank
152 | 98.95%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 53 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
94 CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing 2011 SIGMOD 0.00051273089
116 Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing 2000 SIGMOD 0.00046191288
207 Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach 2001 SIGMOD 0.00034571837
345 Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00026634783
396 An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration* 1999 SIGMOD 0.00024439334
586 Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001963091
867 Query Optimization in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns 1999 SIGMOD 0.00015757737
889 Data Integration: The Teenage Years 2006 VLDB 0.00015548507
1,026 WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web* 2000 SIGMOD 0.00014595291
1,080 Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System 1998 SIGMOD 0.00014204122
1,198 Crossing the Structure Chasm 2003 CIDR 0.00013360548
1,632 Garlic: A New Flavor of Federated Query Processing for DB2 2002 SIGMOD 0.00011070537
1,777 E-Services: A Look Behind the Curtain 2003 PODS 0.00010571658
2,066 System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML 2005 SIGMOD 9.64571e-05
2,220 On Parallel Processing of Aggregate and Scalar Functions in Object-Relational DBMS 1998 SIGMOD 9.2614686e-05
2,290 Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries using Transient-Views 1998 SIGMOD 9.0918901e-05
2,327 Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources 1999 SIGMOD 9.0251624e-05
2,397 Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data 1999 SIGMOD 8.8888995e-05
2,491 Partial Results for Online Query Processing 2002 SIGMOD 8.6497182e-05
2,737 Open Data Integration 2018 VLDB 8.2053894e-05
2,953 On Wrapping Query Languages and Efficient XML Integration 2000 SIGMOD 7.8225025e-05
3,021 Enterprise Information Integration: Successes, Challenges and Controversies 2005 SIGMOD 7.695431e-05
3,174 Query Containment for Data Integration Systems 2000 PODS 7.444226e-05
3,331 Adapting to Source Properties in Processing Data Integration Queries 2004 SIGMOD 7.2094696e-05
3,833 Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources 1997 VLDB 6.7141332e-05
4,203 Cost Models DO Matter: Providing Cost Information for Diverse Data Sources in a Federated System 1999 VLDB 6.3561618e-05
4,303 Integrating Heterogeneous Overlapping Databases Through Object-Oriented Transformations 1999 VLDB 6.2824978e-05
4,355 Loading a Cache with Query Results 1999 VLDB 6.2520069e-05
4,644 Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS 1998 SIGMOD 6.0197081e-05
5,176 Mapping Maintenance for Data Integration Systems 2005 VLDB 5.6389361e-05
5,336 Heterogeneous Database Query Optimization in DB2 Universal DataJoiner 1998 VLDB 5.5610288e-05
5,409 Towards Scalable Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue 2019 SIGMOD 5.5224926e-05
5,496 Answering Queries Using Views with Arithmetic Comparisons 2002 PODS 5.4741922e-05
5,555 Network-Aware Query Processing for Stream-based Applications 2004 VLDB 5.4405244e-05
5,770 Capturing both Types and Constraints in Data Integration 2003 SIGMOD 5.3325833e-05
6,198 Just-in-time Data Integration in Action 2010 VLDB 5.1565928e-05
6,567 Generating Efficient Plans for Queries Using Views 2001 SIGMOD 5.0023017e-05
6,654 Efficient Evaluation of Queries in a Mediator for WebSources 2002 SIGMOD 4.9704407e-05
6,801 Query Optimization over Crowdsourced Data 2013 VLDB 4.9175463e-05
7,213 SmartCIS: Integrating Digital and Physical Environments 2009 SIGMOD 4.7943535e-05
7,522 The Nimble Integration Engine 2001 SIGMOD 4.7135369e-05
7,956 Shasta: Interactive Reporting At Scale 2016 SIGMOD 4.6089395e-05
8,023 FORWARD: Data-Centric UIs using Declarative Templates that Efficiently Wrap Third-Party JavaScript Components 2014 VLDB 4.5994146e-05
9,184 MOCHA: A Self-Extensible Database Middleware System for Distributed Data Sources 2000 SIGMOD 4.3776262e-05
9,263 Materializing Views with Minimal Size To Answer Queries 2003 PODS 4.3648789e-05
9,916 Check Out the Big Brain on BRAD: Simplifying Cloud Data Processing with Learned Automated Data Meshes 2023 VLDB 4.2520778e-05
9,921 Request Window: an Approach to Improve Throughput of RDBMS-based Data Integration System by Utilizing Data Sharing Across Concurrent Distributed Queries 2007 VLDB 4.250874e-05
12,431 The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing 2007 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,684 HyperQueries: Dynamic Distributed Query Processing on the Internet 2001 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,704 Approximate Query Translation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources 2000 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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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 0.0040465394
127 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00044607231
134 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00043070028
220 Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives 1988 SIGMOD 0.00033312045
309 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.00028195213
345 Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00026634783
418 Query Optimization in the Presence of Foreign Functions 1993 VLDB 0.0002372277
976 Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors 1996 PODS 0.00014877501
1,319 Intelligent Integration of Information 1993 SIGMOD 0.00012608305
1,846 Query Optimization in Heterogeneous DBMS 1992 VLDB 0.00010338936
2,349 Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing 1996 SIGMOD 8.9903567e-05
2,392 Processing Queries Over Generalization Hierarchies in a Multidatabase System 1983 VLDB 8.8934863e-05
3,407 EROC: A Toolkit for Building NEATO Query Optimizers 1996 VLDB 7.1253175e-05
4,093 Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer 1988 VLDB 6.4521318e-05
4,242 Calibrating the Query Optimizer Cost Model of IRO-DB, an Object-Oriented Federated Database System 1996 VLDB 6.3254061e-05
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