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On the Production of Anorexic Plan Diagrams

Summary: Formalizes plan diagrams for optimizer search spaces; shows optimal reduction NP-hard even with storage limits. Linear-time greedy reduction with optimal guarantees; fast plan-cost estimators show diagrams shrink to anorexic sizes with minimal cost. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9518
Venue
VLDB
Year
2007
Pagerank
5.4866057e-05
Overall Rank
5,476 | 61.95%
DOI
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1,297 The Picasso Database Query Optimizer Visualizer 2010 VLDB 0.00012732768
2,632 Plan Bouquets: Query Processing without Selectivity Estimation 2014 SIGMOD 8.4153283e-05
3,402 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.134261e-05
4,342 Identifying Robust Plans through Plan Diagram Reduction 2008 VLDB 6.2680535e-05
5,344 Efficiently Approximating Query Optimizer Plan Diagrams 2008 VLDB 5.5579641e-05
6,471 Leveraging Re-costing for Online Optimization of Parameterized Queries with Guarantees 2017 SIGMOD 5.0438582e-05
6,561 On the Stability of Plan Costs and the Costs of Plan Stability 2010 VLDB 5.0055336e-05
6,616 QUEST: An Exploratory Approach to Robust Query Processing 2014 VLDB 4.9881716e-05
6,639 Leveraging Query Logs and Machine Learning for Parametric Query Optimization 2022 VLDB 4.976781e-05
7,122 Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics 2025 SIGMOD 4.8199209e-05
8,130 Robust Query Processing: Mission Possible 2020 VLDB 4.5746794e-05
8,193 On the Calculation of Optimality Ranges for Relational Query Execution Plans 2018 SIGMOD 4.5575291e-05
8,440 PARQO: Penalty-Aware Robust Plan Selection in Query Optimization 2024 VLDB 4.505741e-05
8,623 Adaptive Code Generation for Data-Intensive Analytics 2021 VLDB 4.4786182e-05
9,191 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 4.3738237e-05
10,050 APQO: An Adaptive Framework for Parametric Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,757 PAR2QO: Parametric Penalty-Aware Robust Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,884 RankPQO: Learning-to-Rank for Parametric Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,299 Visualizing the robustness of query execution 2009 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
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Showing 13 of 13 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 0.0040465394
181 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00036970794
221 Efficient Mid-Query Re-Optimization of Sub-Optimal Query Execution Plans 1998 SIGMOD 0.00033182072
269 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries 1986 SIGMOD 0.00029665158
342 Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans 1994 SIGMOD 0.00026836424
870 Parametric Query Optimization 1992 VLDB 0.00015709369
1,064 Analyzing Plan Diagrams of Database Query Optimizers 2005 VLDB 0.00014348262
1,234 Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: An Exercise in Utility 1999 PODS 0.00013115865
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
1,990 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions 2003 VLDB 9.8491124e-05
2,187 Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: What Can We Expect? 2002 PODS 9.3429142e-05
4,517 A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters 2003 SIGMOD 6.1143396e-05
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