Optimizing Nested Recursive Queries

Summary: Temporel enables recursion to mix with non-monotone operators, reducing inefficiencies in relaxed Datalog. It compiles to TempoDL, a novel IR enabling optimizations and outperforming Datalog and in-memory engines on ML/graph workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0a685fefa335b0fe
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.3456573e-05
Overall Rank: 8,362 | 43.80%
DOI: 10.1145/3639271

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Amir Shaikhha (University of Edinburgh)
2. Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
3. Maximilian Schleich (RelationalAI)
4. Hung Ngo (RelationalAI)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shaikhha_sigmod24,
        title = {{Optimizing Nested Recursive Queries}},
        author = {Shaikhha, Amir and Suciu, Dan and Schleich, Maximilian and Ngo, Hung},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3639271},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639271},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,800	Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries	2026	CIDR	5.1233734e-05
10,893	FlowLog: Efficient and Extensible Datalog via Incrementality	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,971	GraphAlg Playground: An Online Platform for Learning and Experimenting with the GraphAlg Language	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 24 of 24 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
18	MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)	1986	PODS	0.00058997063
21	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00056835296
466	Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System	2015	SIGMOD	0.00017765702
531	The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates	1990	VLDB	0.00016845756
1,439	Magic is Relevant	1990	SIGMOD	0.000106437
1,744	How to Architect a Query Compiler	2016	SIGMOD	9.7332903e-05
2,632	Convergence of Datalog over (Pre-) Semirings	2022	PODS	8.1988853e-05
2,636	Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark	2016	SIGMOD	8.1926426e-05
2,939	RaSQL: Greater Power and Performance for Big Data Analytics with Recursive-aggregate-SQL on Spark	2019	SIGMOD	7.8318902e-05
3,195	One WITH RECURSIVE is Worth Many GOTOs	2021	SIGMOD	7.546228e-05
3,624	Minimum and Maximum Predicates in Logic Programming	1991	PODS	7.1502242e-05
3,707	Implementation of Magic-sets in a Relational Database System	1994	SIGMOD	7.0789307e-05
4,079	Monotonic Aggregation in Deductive Databases	1992	PODS	6.8154895e-05
4,153	Asynchronous and Fault-Tolerant Recursive Datalog Evaluation in Shared-Nothing Engines	2015	VLDB	6.7730626e-05
4,325	Polynomial Time Query Processing in Temporal Deductive Databases	1990	PODS	6.6621676e-05
5,444	Optimizing Tensor Programs on Flexible Storage	2023	SIGMOD	6.1250455e-05
5,593	Datalog and Emerging Applications: An Interactive Tutorial	2011	SIGMOD	6.0707344e-05
5,868	Scaling-Up In-Memory Datalog Processing: Observations and Techniques	2019	VLDB	5.962124e-05
5,906	PL/SQL Without the PL	2020	SIGMOD	5.9495255e-05
6,312	Automating Incremental and Asynchronous Evaluation for Recursive Aggregate Data Processing	2020	SIGMOD	5.8149275e-05
6,402	Functional-Style SQL UDFs With a Capital 'F'	2020	SIGMOD	5.7953646e-05
6,711	Machine Learning, Linear Algebra, and More: Is SQL All You Need?	2022	CIDR	5.7011955e-05
7,141	Optimizing Recursive Queries with Program Synthesis	2022	SIGMOD	5.5979985e-05
7,452	A Fix for the Fixation on Fixpoints	2023	CIDR	5.5213651e-05

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