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Cost Models DO Matter: Providing Cost Information for Diverse Data Sources in a Federated System

Summary: Framework to collect cost and cardinality from diverse sources for a traditional cost-based optimizer. Enables accurate cross-source query optimization with minimal changes to the optimizer and easy extensibility across sources. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8794
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
6.5557492e-05
Overall Rank
4,700 | 67.76%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{roth_vldb99,
        title = {{Cost Models DO Matter: Providing Cost Information for Diverse Data Sources in a Federated System}},
        author = {Roth, Mary Tork and Özcan, Fatma and Haas, Laura M.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {599--610},
        year = {1999}
}

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785 Middle-Tier Database Caching for e-Business 2002 SIGMOD 0.00014068999
1,675 Garlic: A New Flavor of Federated Query Processing for DB2 2002 SIGMOD 0.00010035333
3,638 Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization 2016 VLDB 7.2338361e-05
4,771 Loading a Cache with Query Results 1999 VLDB 6.5158709e-05
6,833 Efficient Evaluation of Queries in a Mediator for WebSources 2002 SIGMOD 5.7596307e-05
10,066 Check Out the Big Brain on BRAD: Simplifying Cloud Data Processing with Learned Automated Data Meshes 2023 VLDB 5.1643809e-05
11,290 Presto’s History-based Query Optimizer 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 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
117 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00032192665
132 Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates 1993 SIGMOD 0.00030378624
171 Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00027363924
268 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.00022788687
381 Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems 1996 SIGMOD 0.00019549294
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
677 Query Optimization in the Presence of Foreign Functions 1993 VLDB 0.00015065909
1,595 Query Optimization in Heterogeneous DBMS 1992 VLDB 0.00010249433
1,753 Data Access for the Masses through OLE DB 1996 SIGMOD 9.8322034e-05
4,469 The BUCKY Object-Relational Benchmark 1997 SIGMOD 6.6818543e-05
4,706 Calibrating the Query Optimizer Cost Model of IRO-DB, an Object-Oriented Federated Database System 1996 VLDB 6.5525364e-05
4,902 Reducing Multidatabase Query Response Time By Tree Balancing 1995 SIGMOD 6.4525702e-05
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