TOPAZ: a Cost-Based, Rule-Driven, Multi-Phase Parallelizer

Summary: TOPAZ is a generic, cost-based rule framework for parallel query optimization, exploiting multiple parallelism forms under resource constraints. Its top-down search uses global, multi-phase plan pruning and iterator/data-river abstractions for extensible integration. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8684
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,938 | 11.24%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Clara Nippl (Technical University of Munich)
2. Bernhard Mitschang (Technical University of Munich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nippl_vldb98,
        title = {{TOPAZ: a Cost-Based, Rule-Driven, Multi-Phase Parallelizer}},
        author = {Nippl, Clara and Mitschang, Bernhard},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        year = {1998}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
171	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00027363924
192	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00026028406
316	Measuring the Complexity of Join Enumeration in Query Optimization	1990	VLDB	0.0002141607
434	Query Optimization for Parallel Execution	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018531826
904	Tradeoffs in Processing Complex Join Queries via Hashing in Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.00013319798
1,291	Managing Intra-operator Parallelism in Parallel Database Systems	1995	VLDB	0.00011307625
2,104	Optimization of Multi-Way Join Queries for Parallel Execution	1991	VLDB	9.1594086e-05
2,272	Parallel evaluation of multi-join queries	1995	SIGMOD	8.8242407e-05
2,582	On the Effectiveness of Optimization Search Strategies for Parallel Execution Spaces	1993	VLDB	8.3875949e-05
2,627	The Complexity of Transformation-Based Join Enumeration	1997	VLDB	8.3284491e-05
2,846	Dynamic Load Balancing in Hierarchical Parallel Database Systems	1996	VLDB	8.0594267e-05
3,036	On Parallel Processing of Aggregate and Scalar Functions in Object-Relational DBMS	1998	SIGMOD	7.8287552e-05
3,046	Parallel Query Scheduling and Optimization with Time- and Space-Shared Resources	1997	VLDB	7.8159925e-05
3,250	On Optimal Processor Allocation To Support Pipelined Hash Joins	1993	SIGMOD	7.597429e-05
3,508	Multi-Join Optimization for Symmetric Multiprocessors	1993	VLDB	7.3566888e-05
3,779	EROC: A Toolkit for Building NEATO Query Optimizers	1996	VLDB	7.1326925e-05
5,615	Efficient and Accurate Cost Models for Parallel Query Optimization	1996	PODS	6.1497352e-05
5,656	The Query Optimizer in Tandem’s new ServerWare SQL Product	1996	VLDB	6.131464e-05
9,789	A Plan-Operator Concept for Client-Based Knowledge Processing	1993	VLDB	5.2209769e-05

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