Plan Selection based on Query Clustering

Summary: PLASTIC clusters similar queries to amortize optimizer cost. Similarity uses structure and schema stats; a classifier assigns queries to clusters and reuses a representative plan; experiments show high plan-prediction accuracy with low misprediction cost. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8844
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 9.9464221e-05
Overall Rank: 1,961 | 86.38%
DOI: -

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704	Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00017785557
709	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.00017740603
1,064	Analyzing Plan Diagrams of Database Query Optimizers	2005	VLDB	0.00014348262
1,990	AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions	2003	VLDB	9.8491124e-05
2,479	Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Physical Design	2007	VLDB	8.6836615e-05
3,213	Predicting Cost Amortization for Query Services	2011	SIGMOD	7.3749055e-05
4,480	Variance Aware Optimization of Parameterized Queries	2010	SIGMOD	6.1433292e-05
5,344	Efficiently Approximating Query Optimizer Plan Diagrams	2008	VLDB	5.5579641e-05
6,331	Green Query Optimization: Taming Query Optimization Overheads through Plan Recycling	2004	VLDB	5.1027649e-05
6,364	ISUM: Efficiently Compressing Large and Complex Workloads for Scalable Index Tuning	2022	SIGMOD	5.0895007e-05
6,471	Leveraging Re-costing for Online Optimization of Parameterized Queries with Guarantees	2017	SIGMOD	5.0438582e-05
7,776	Plan Stitch: Harnessing the Best of Many Plans	2018	VLDB	4.6493147e-05
8,043	DISTILL: Low-Overhead Data-Driven Techniques for Filtering and Costing Indexes for Scalable Index Tuning	2022	VLDB	4.5954398e-05
8,440	PARQO: Penalty-Aware Robust Plan Selection in Query Optimization	2024	VLDB	4.505741e-05
9,930	Wred: Workload Reduction for Scalable Index Tuning	2024	SIGMOD	4.2469394e-05
10,757	PAR2QO: Parametric Penalty-Aware Robust Query Optimization	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
13,742	PLASTIC: Reducing Query Optimization Overheads through Plan Recycling	2003	SIGMOD	-

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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
33	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases	1996	SIGMOD	0.00077399244
179	Efficient and Extensible Algorithms for Multi Query Optimization	2000	SIGMOD	0.00037637319
342	Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans	1994	SIGMOD	0.00026836424
667	The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00018431008
1,725	Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms	1998	VLDB	0.0001073575

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