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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
9259
Venue
VLDB
Year
2005
Pagerank
0.00014348262
Overall Rank
1,064 | 92.61%
DOI
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627 Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding the Impact of Cardinality Estimation Errors 2009 VLDB 0.00018959896
1,297 The Picasso Database Query Optimizer Visualizer 2010 VLDB 0.00012732768
1,756 Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010659753
2,167 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 9.3879598e-05
2,467 CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads 2011 VLDB 8.7264908e-05
2,479 Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Physical Design 2007 VLDB 8.6836615e-05
2,652 Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization 2015 VLDB 8.3662031e-05
2,971 Estimating Join Selectivities using Bandwidth-Optimized Kernel Density Models 2017 VLDB 7.7935535e-05
3,345 Lero: A Learning-to-Rank Query Optimizer 2023 VLDB 7.1908499e-05
3,402 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.134261e-05
3,800 Why You Should Run TPC-DS: A Workload Analysis 2007 VLDB 6.7529849e-05
4,342 Identifying Robust Plans through Plan Diagram Reduction 2008 VLDB 6.2680535e-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
5,412 Kepler: Robust Learning for Faster Parametric Query Optimization 2023 SIGMOD 5.5200608e-05
5,476 On the Production of Anorexic Plan Diagrams 2007 VLDB 5.4866057e-05
6,277 Uncertainty Aware Query Execution Time Prediction 2014 VLDB 5.1260947e-05
6,471 Leveraging Re-costing for Online Optimization of Parameterized Queries with Guarantees 2017 SIGMOD 5.0438582e-05
6,639 Leveraging Query Logs and Machine Learning for Parametric Query Optimization 2022 VLDB 4.976781e-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
9,191 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 4.3738237e-05
9,959 An Elephant Under The Microscope: Analyzing The Interaction Of Optimizer Components In PostgreSQL 2025 SIGMOD 4.2254157e-05
10,050 APQO: An Adaptive Framework for Parametric Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,219 Practical Parameterized Query Optimization via Efficient Plan Reuse and List-wise Ranking 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,757 PAR2QO: Parametric Penalty-Aware Robust Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,813 Hint-QPT: Hints for Robust Query Performance Tuning 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,884 RankPQO: Learning-to-Rank for Parametric Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,003 AZDBLab: A Laboratory Information System for Large-Scale Empirical DBMS Studies 2014 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,299 Visualizing the robustness of query execution 2009 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,391 Dependable Cardinality Forecasts for XQuery 2008 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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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
181 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00036970794
342 Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans 1994 SIGMOD 0.00026836424
870 Parametric Query Optimization 1992 VLDB 0.00015709369
1,644 Parametric Query Optimization for Linear and Piecewise Linear Cost Functions 2002 VLDB 0.0001102889
1,725 Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms 1998 VLDB 0.0001073575
1,961 Plan Selection based on Query Clustering 2002 VLDB 9.9464221e-05
1,990 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions 2003 VLDB 9.8491124e-05
3,563 Counting, Enumerating, and Sampling of Execution Plans in a Cost-Based Query Optimizer 2000 SIGMOD 6.9686532e-05
4,390 Estimating Compilation Time of a Query Optimizer 2003 SIGMOD 6.2193128e-05
4,517 A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters 2003 SIGMOD 6.1143396e-05
6,331 Green Query Optimization: Taming Query Optimization Overheads through Plan Recycling 2004 VLDB 5.1027649e-05
13,742 PLASTIC: Reducing Query Optimization Overheads through Plan Recycling 2003 SIGMOD -
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