A-Tree: A Dynamic Data Structure for Efficiently Indexing Arbitrary Boolean Expressions

Summary: Proposes A-Tree, a dynamic, multirooted index for arbitrary Boolean expressions that shares predicates and subexpressions to avoid exponential expansion. Self-adjusting, with event-matching optimizations, it outperforms existing arbitrary- and conjunctive-expression matchers in memory, time, and index construction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2914a58340737bd1
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.2679623e-05
Overall Rank: 8,774 | 41.19%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3457266

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Shuping Ji (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
2. Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ji_sigmod21,
        title = {{A-Tree: A Dynamic Data Structure for Efficiently Indexing Arbitrary Boolean Expressions}},
        author = {Ji, Shuping and Jacobsen, Hans-Arno},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457266},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457266},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,079	Optimizing Disjunctive Queries with Tagged Execution	2024	SIGMOD	5.2106452e-05
10,776	Efficient Temporal Subgraph Management: A New Interval Index	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
241	High-Performance Complex Event Processing over Streams	2006	SIGMOD	0.00023332645
377	Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System	2002	SIGMOD	0.00019634591
454	Filtering Algorithms and Implementation for Very Fast Publish/Subscribe Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00017960383
735	ORDPATHs: Insert-Friendly XML Node Labels	2004	SIGMOD	0.00014329959
1,034	ZStream: A Cost-based Query Processor for Adaptively Detecting Composite Events	2009	SIGMOD	0.00012370157
1,381	Execution Strategies for SQL Subqueries	2007	SIGMOD	0.00010832197
2,375	SASE: Complex Event Processing over Streams	2007	CIDR	8.5351561e-05
2,548	A Predicate Matching Algorithm for Database Rule Systems	1990	SIGMOD	8.2927647e-05
2,802	Indexing Boolean Expressions	2009	VLDB	7.9755348e-05
2,949	Cayuga: A High-Performance Event Processing Engine	2007	SIGMOD	7.8084129e-05
3,422	Scalable Pattern Sharing on Event Streams	2016	SIGMOD	7.298206e-05
3,608	Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues	2000	VLDB	7.1494e-05
5,081	Active Complex Event Processing over Event Streams	2011	VLDB	6.2685571e-05
5,346	Efficiently Evaluating Complex Boolean Expressions	2010	SIGMOD	6.1566365e-05
5,668	Scalable Ranked Publish/Subscribe	2008	VLDB	6.0272577e-05
6,162	BE-Tree: An Index Structure to Efficiently Match Boolean Expressions over High-dimensional Discrete Space	2011	SIGMOD	5.8512412e-05
7,027	An Efficient Publish/Subscribe Index for E-Commerce Databases	2014	VLDB	5.6014394e-05
9,616	PS-Tree-Based Efficient Boolean Expression Matching for High-Dimensional and Dense Workloads	2019	VLDB	5.1376962e-05

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