Robust Join Processing with Diamond Hardened Joins
Summary: Identifies the “diamond problem”—joins that blow up redundant intermediate results (common in graph workloads and JOB)—and proposes Diamond Hardened Joins that split joins into Lookup & Expand suboperators. Reordering these avoids huge intermediates, yielding up to 500× speedups without the constant overheads of worst-case-optimal approaches and while preserving performance on regular TPC‑H/JOB queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Altan Birler (Technical University of Munich)
- 2. Alfons Kemper (Technical University of Munich)
- 3. Thomas Neumann (Technical University of Munich)
BibTeX Citation
@article{birler_vldb24,
title = {{Robust Join Processing with Diamond Hardened Joins}},
author = {Birler, Altan and Kemper, Alfons and Neumann, Thomas},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {11},
pages = {3215--3228},
doi = {10.14778/3681954.3681995},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3681954.3681995},
year = {2024}
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