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On the Production of Anorexic Plan Diagrams

Summary: Plan-diagram reduction is NP-hard, even with storage constraints. A linear-time greedy algorithm with tight guarantees and cost/cardinality estimators yields dramatically smaller (“anorexic”) diagrams with negligible TPC-H cost impact. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
9708
Venue
VLDB
Year
2007
Pagerank
6.6048588e-05
Overall Rank
4,616 | 68.34%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{d_vldb07,
        title = {{On the Production of Anorexic Plan Diagrams}},
        author = {D., Harish and Darera, Pooja N. and Haritsa, Jayant R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '07},
        year = {2007}
}

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1,987 Plan Bouquets: Query Processing without Selectivity Estimation 2014 SIGMOD 9.3517129e-05
2,944 Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract? 2009 SIGMOD 7.9335187e-05
3,506 Identifying Robust Plans through Plan Diagram Reduction 2008 VLDB 7.3581509e-05
4,817 Efficiently Approximating Query Optimizer Plan Diagrams 2008 VLDB 6.4944225e-05
5,281 Leveraging Re-costing for Online Optimization of Parameterized Queries with Guarantees 2017 SIGMOD 6.2842378e-05
5,394 Leveraging Query Logs and Machine Learning for Parametric Query Optimization 2022 VLDB 6.2336084e-05
5,529 Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics 2025 SIGMOD 6.18591e-05
5,898 On the Stability of Plan Costs and the Costs of Plan Stability 2010 VLDB 6.0471908e-05
6,316 QUEST: An Exploratory Approach to Robust Query Processing 2014 VLDB 5.9151861e-05
7,495 On the Calculation of Optimality Ranges for Relational Query Execution Plans 2018 SIGMOD 5.6041473e-05
7,829 Robust Query Processing: Mission Possible 2020 VLDB 5.5360082e-05
8,305 PARQO: Penalty-Aware Robust Plan Selection in Query Optimization 2024 VLDB 5.4568571e-05
8,494 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 5.4142129e-05
8,636 Adaptive Code Generation for Data-Intensive Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.3954959e-05
10,151 Coresets for Robust Query Optimization 2026 PODS 5.093636e-05
10,343 APQO: An Adaptive Framework for Parametric Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,986 PAR2QO: Parametric Penalty-Aware Robust Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,103 RankPQO: Learning-to-Rank for Parametric Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,486 Visualizing the robustness of query execution 2009 CIDR 5.093636e-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 0.0024089429
100 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00034385207
151 Efficient Mid-Query Re-Optimization of Sub-Optimal Query Execution Plans 1998 SIGMOD 0.00029161879
289 Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans 1994 SIGMOD 0.00022278876
396 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries 1986 SIGMOD 0.00019287574
770 Parametric Query Optimization 1992 VLDB 0.00014166811
984 Analyzing Plan Diagrams of Database Query Optimizers 2005 VLDB 0.00012825643
1,104 Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: An Exercise in Utility 1999 PODS 0.00012157634
1,321 Parametric Query Optimization for Linear and Piecewise Linear Cost Functions 2002 VLDB 0.00011162369
1,470 Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms 1998 VLDB 0.00010676869
1,645 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions 2003 VLDB 0.00010129244
1,795 Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: What Can We Expect? 2002 PODS 9.738718e-05
4,790 A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters 2003 SIGMOD 6.5068083e-05
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