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 3 of 53 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,722	Database Patchwork on the Internet	1999	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,751	nD-SQL: A Multi-dimensional Language for Interoperability and OLAP	1998	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,754	TOPAZ: a Cost-Based, Rule-Driven, Multi-Phase Parallelizer	1998	VLDB	4.1905499e-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	0.0040465394
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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