DBScholar

Back to papers

Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System

Summary: Access path selection for a single relation and for joins from a boolean predicate specification. System R, an IBM experimental DBMS, demonstrates automatic physical path choice to support SQL-like queries and research on the relational model. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h49868142d9c2ae1f
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1979
Pagerank
0.0023947656
Overall Rank
1 | 100.00%
DOI
10.1145/582095.582099

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{selinger_sigmod79,
        title = {{Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System}},
        author = {Selinger, P. Griffiths and Astrahan, M. M. and Chamberlin, D. D. and Lorie, R. A. and Price, T. G.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '79},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582095.582099},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582095.582099},
        year = {1979}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 453 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
8,256 Load Balancing in a Locally Distributed Database System 1986 SIGMOD 5.3675233e-05
8,258 The Case for NLP-Enhanced Database Tuning: Towards Tuning Tools that “Read the Manual” 2021 VLDB 5.3671363e-05
8,267 Safety Guarantee of Continuous Join Queries over Punctuated Data Streams 2006 VLDB 5.3648996e-05
8,284 A Formal Model of Trade-off between Optimization and Execution Costs in Semantic Query Optimization 1988 VLDB 5.3626342e-05
8,290 User-Optimizer Communication using Abstract Plans in Sybase ASE 2001 VLDB 5.3614554e-05
8,345 MONSOON: Multi-Step Optimization and Execution of Queries with Partially Obscured Predicates 2020 SIGMOD 5.3511996e-05
8,364 Massively Parallel Data Analysis with PACTs on Nephele 2010 VLDB 5.3465033e-05
8,370 MicroNN: An On-device Disk-resident Updatable Vector Database 2025 SIGMOD 5.34483e-05
8,462 On the Optimality of Strategies for Multiple Joins 1990 PODS 5.3350162e-05
8,575 The Fittest Survives: An Adaptive Approach to Query Optimization 1995 VLDB 5.3115836e-05
8,651 Hybrid Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Large-Scale Join Order Optimisation 2026 VLDB 5.2945994e-05
8,682 Galley: Modern Query Optimization for Sparse Tensor Programs 2025 SIGMOD 5.2905577e-05
8,850 SkinnerMT: Parallelizing for Efficiency and Robustness in Adaptive Query Processing on Multicore Platforms 2023 VLDB 5.2645282e-05
8,861 Parallel I/O Aware Query Optimization 2014 SIGMOD 5.2628437e-05
8,971 A Fast Randomized Algorithm for Multi-Objective Query Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 5.2462912e-05
9,012 ByteCard: Enhancing ByteDance’s Data Warehouse with Learned Cardinality Estimation 2024 SIGMOD 5.2375369e-05
9,052 Optimizing Disjunctive Queries with Tagged Execution 2024 SIGMOD 5.230408e-05
9,115 Check Out the Big Brain on BRAD: Simplifying Cloud Data Processing with Learned Automated Data Meshes 2023 VLDB 5.2271833e-05
9,116 Automatic Index Selection for Large-Scale Datalog Computation 2019 VLDB 5.2270261e-05
9,123 Optimization of Multi-Version Expensive Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 5.2254194e-05
9,211 DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering 2024 SIGMOD 5.206112e-05
9,301 Rethink Query Optimization in HTAP Databases 2023 SIGMOD 5.1987909e-05
9,418 MOCHA: A Self-Extensible Database Middleware System for Distributed Data Sources 2000 SIGMOD 5.1803485e-05
9,478 LpBound in Action: Cardinality Estimation with One-Sided Guarantees 2025 SIGMOD 5.1708619e-05
9,546 Athena: An Effective Learning-based Framework for Query Optimizer Performance Improvement 2025 SIGMOD 5.1604755e-05
9,585 Materializing Views with Minimal Size To Answer Queries 2003 PODS 5.1571823e-05
9,610 LIMAO: A Framework for Lifelong Modular Learned Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 5.1526493e-05
9,621 Parallelizing Query Optimization on Shared-Nothing Architectures 2016 VLDB 5.1497631e-05
9,670 Low Rank Learning for Offline Query Optimization 2025 SIGMOD 5.1452097e-05
9,718 A Practical Theory of Generalization in Selectivity Learning 2025 VLDB 5.1353964e-05
9,772 Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics 2003 VLDB 5.1324546e-05
9,932 Optimization of Disjunctive Predicates for Main Memory Column Stores 2017 SIGMOD 5.1101087e-05
9,954 Conformal Prediction for Verifiable Learned Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 5.1038322e-05
10,021 Distributed Numerical and Machine Learning Computations via Two-Phase Execution of Aggregated Join Trees 2021 VLDB 5.0943545e-05
10,103 Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2025 VLDB 5.0789354e-05
10,140 How to Optimize SQL Queries? A Comparison Between Split, Holistic, and Hybrid Approaches 2025 VLDB 5.0742707e-05
10,174 Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases 2019 CIDR 5.0681899e-05
10,184 Path-centric Cardinality Estimation for Subgraph Matching 2025 VLDB 5.0651993e-05
10,216 PRICE: A Pretrained Model for Cross-Database Cardinality Estimation 2025 VLDB 5.0584922e-05
10,294 Data-Agnostic Cardinality Learning from Imperfect Workloads 2025 VLDB 5.0431863e-05
10,334 Efficient Enumeration of Recursive Plans in Transformation-based Query Optimizers 2024 VLDB 5.0254535e-05
10,336 An Elephant Under The Microscope: Analyzing The Interaction Of Optimizer Components In PostgreSQL 2025 SIGMOD 5.0200193e-05
10,365 Size Bound-Adorned Datalog 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
10,368 Coresets for Robust Query Optimization 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
10,382 PANDAExpress: A Simpler and Faster PANDA Algorithm 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
10,406 AgenticScholar: Agentic Data Management with Pipeline Orchestration for Scholarly Corpora 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,422 Bridging the Gap: Cardinality Estimation for Semantic Queries on Unstructured Data 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,434 Detecting Join Bugs in Database Engines via Join Implication Reasoning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,503 SmartRabbit: An Interactive Query Processor 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,508 Succinct Structure Representations for Efficient Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
Previous Page 8 / 10 Next

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 0 of 0 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Semantically Similar Papers