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R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries

Summary: Validates R*’s distributed-query cost model against measured message, CPU, and I/O costs across network regimes and workloads. Finds concurrency benefits, whole-inner-table shipping superiority, and Bloomjoins’ consistent advantage over semijoins and R*’s best strategies. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h304083179a85a4c4
Venue
VLDB
Year
1986
Pagerank
0.00020461727
Overall Rank
344 | 97.69%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{mackert_vldb86,
        title = {{R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries}},
        author = {Mackert, Lothar F. and Lohman, Guy M.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '86},
        volume = {12},
        pages = {149},
        year = {1986}
}

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91 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.0003475226
97 Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers 1987 VLDB 0.00034124569
196 Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives 1988 SIGMOD 0.00025626873
273 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.00022504729
397 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries 1986 SIGMOD 0.00019157058
424 Cost-based Query Scrambling for Initial Delays 1998 SIGMOD 0.0001848836
468 Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00017761038
476 Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans 1989 SIGMOD 0.00017640534
572 Querying the Internet with PIER 2003 VLDB 0.00016196998
859 Query Optimization by Simulated Annealing 1987 SIGMOD 0.00013418999
870 Spectral Bloom Filters 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001334417
969 Memory-Efficient Hash Joins 2015 VLDB 0.0001278184
1,819 The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor 2005 CIDR 9.5708563e-05
1,844 Morton Filters: Faster, Space-Efficient Cuckoo Filters via Biasing, Compression, and Decoupled Logical Sparsity 2018 VLDB 9.5159229e-05
1,995 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.2169073e-05
2,384 Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing 1996 SIGMOD 8.5398467e-05
2,480 REX: Recursive, Delta-Based Data-Centric Computation 2012 VLDB 8.4035081e-05
3,209 Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer 1988 VLDB 7.5364911e-05
3,556 WANalytics: Analytics for a Geo-Distributed Data-Intensive World 2015 CIDR 7.2084485e-05
3,592 Looking Ahead Makes Query Plans Robust: Making the Initial Case with In-Memory Star Schema Data Warehouse Workloads 2017 VLDB 7.1835842e-05
4,914 REED: Robust, Efficient Filtering and Event Detection in Sensor Networks 2005 VLDB 6.356071e-05
6,158 Extending Logging for Database Snapshot Refresh 1987 VLDB 5.8662579e-05
8,130 Client-Site Query Extensions 1999 SIGMOD 5.3937641e-05
8,580 Conditional Cuckoo Filters 2021 SIGMOD 5.3100462e-05
9,418 MOCHA: A Self-Extensible Database Middleware System for Distributed Data Sources 2000 SIGMOD 5.1803485e-05
10,153 Threshold Queries in Theory and in the Wild 2022 VLDB 5.0715586e-05
10,910 TEngineDB-V: An OLAP-Native Vector Search System for Large-k Workloads at Tencent 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,126 Dynamic Pruning for Recursive Joins 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 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 0.0023947656
59 Differential Files: Their Application To The Maintenance Of Large Data Bases 1976 SIGMOD 0.00039605949
82 Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations 1984 VLDB 0.00036053776
156 Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms 1985 VLDB 0.00028522117
397 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries 1986 SIGMOD 0.00019157058
405 Distributed Query Processing In A Relational Data Base System 1978 SIGMOD 0.00019065801
1,672 Some Experimental Results on Distributed Join Algorithms in a Local Network 1985 VLDB 9.9283778e-05
1,673 On the Design of a Query Processing Strategy in a Distributed Database Environment 1983 SIGMOD 9.9240164e-05
1,801 A Heuristic Approach to Distributed Query Processing 1982 VLDB 9.6087367e-05
2,206 Query Execution in DIRECT 1979 SIGMOD 8.8527448e-05
2,308 Optimization of Nested Queries in a Distributed Relational Database 1984 VLDB 8.666147e-05
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