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Analyzing Plan Diagrams of Database Query Optimizers

Summary: Plan diagrams map optimizer choices across selectivity for commercial optimizers on TPC-H. Shows fine-grained plan choices, nonmonotonic costs, and that parametric optimization assumptions fail, despite System R–style heuristics with DP. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9258
Venue
VLDB
Year
2005
Pagerank
0.00014316791
Overall Rank
1,070 | 92.56%
DOI
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629 Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding the Impact of Cardinality Estimation Errors 2009 VLDB 0.00018942366
1,300 The Picasso Database Query Optimizer Visualizer 2010 VLDB 0.00012733214
1,758 Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010655546
2,165 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 9.389622e-05
2,470 CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads 2011 VLDB 8.7333019e-05
2,484 Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Physical Design 2007 VLDB 8.6864279e-05
2,659 Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization 2015 VLDB 8.3604734e-05
2,969 Estimating Join Selectivities using Bandwidth-Optimized Kernel Density Models 2017 VLDB 7.7974762e-05
3,348 Lero: A Learning-to-Rank Query Optimizer 2023 VLDB 7.1904529e-05
3,408 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.1288167e-05
3,951 Why You Should Run TPC-DS: A Workload Analysis 2007 VLDB 6.5953162e-05
4,348 Identifying Robust Plans through Plan Diagram Reduction 2008 VLDB 6.2660237e-05
4,482 Variance Aware Optimization of Parameterized Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.1482936e-05
5,340 Efficiently Approximating Query Optimizer Plan Diagrams 2008 VLDB 5.5623066e-05
5,423 Kepler: Robust Learning for Faster Parametric Query Optimization 2023 SIGMOD 5.5130233e-05
5,466 On the Production of Anorexic Plan Diagrams 2007 VLDB 5.4909203e-05
6,278 Uncertainty Aware Query Execution Time Prediction 2014 VLDB 5.1309442e-05
6,479 Leveraging Re-costing for Online Optimization of Parameterized Queries with Guarantees 2017 SIGMOD 5.0483805e-05
6,667 Leveraging Query Logs and Machine Learning for Parametric Query Optimization 2022 VLDB 4.9688874e-05
8,041 DISTILL: Low-Overhead Data-Driven Techniques for Filtering and Costing Indexes for Scalable Index Tuning 2022 VLDB 4.5998045e-05
8,448 PARQO: Penalty-Aware Robust Plan Selection in Query Optimization 2024 VLDB 4.5100508e-05
9,187 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 4.3780059e-05
9,960 An Elephant Under The Microscope: Analyzing The Interaction Of Optimizer Components In PostgreSQL 2025 SIGMOD 4.2294678e-05
10,050 APQO: An Adaptive Framework for Parametric Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,219 Practical Parameterized Query Optimization via Efficient Plan Reuse and List-wise Ranking 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,751 PAR2QO: Parametric Penalty-Aware Robust Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,808 Hint-QPT: Hints for Robust Query Performance Tuning 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,880 RankPQO: Learning-to-Rank for Parametric Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,995 AZDBLab: A Laboratory Information System for Large-Scale Empirical DBMS Studies 2014 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,291 Visualizing the robustness of query execution 2009 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
12,383 Dependable Cardinality Forecasts for XQuery 2008 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
182 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00036962631
339 Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans 1994 SIGMOD 0.00026851113
876 Parametric Query Optimization 1992 VLDB 0.00015716096
1,647 Parametric Query Optimization for Linear and Piecewise Linear Cost Functions 2002 VLDB 0.00011033757
1,726 Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms 1998 VLDB 0.00010741411
1,962 Plan Selection based on Query Clustering 2002 VLDB 9.950467e-05
1,986 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions 2003 VLDB 9.8536784e-05
3,560 Counting, Enumerating, and Sampling of Execution Plans in a Cost-Based Query Optimizer 2000 SIGMOD 6.9723858e-05
4,397 Estimating Compilation Time of a Query Optimizer 2003 SIGMOD 6.2230918e-05
4,516 A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters 2003 SIGMOD 6.1178799e-05
6,331 Green Query Optimization: Taming Query Optimization Overheads through Plan Recycling 2004 VLDB 5.1072556e-05
13,728 PLASTIC: Reducing Query Optimization Overheads through Plan Recycling 2003 SIGMOD -
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