Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution

Summary: Fast, scalable algorithm to decide when a query can use materialized views (selections, joins, final group-by), integrated into transformation-based optimizers. Fully cost-based, it generates multiple rewrites and picks the best; SQL Server experiments show strong performance and scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h7322e7500bd139d6
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 0.00016470022
Overall Rank: 556 | 96.28%
DOI: 10.1145/375663.375706

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jonathan Goldstein (Microsoft)
2. Per-Åke Larson (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{goldstein_sigmod01,
        title = {{Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution}},
        author = {Goldstein, Jonathan and Larson, Per-Åke},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '01},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/375663.375706},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/375663.375706},
        year = {2001}
}

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382	Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2018	SIGMOD	0.0001946654
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037421163
89	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00035265687
168	Query Transformation for PSJ-queries	1987	VLDB	0.00027117709
204	Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments	1995	VLDB	0.0002516936
213	Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation	1995	VLDB	0.00024695393
553	Computing Queries from Derived Relations	1985	VLDB	0.00016493992
567	Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views	1996	VLDB	0.00016228477
654	Materialized Views In Oracle	1998	VLDB	0.00015096471
882	Rewriting Aggregate Queries Using Views	1999	PODS	0.00013239752
940	A Scalable Algorithm for Answering Queries Using Views	2000	VLDB	0.00012941424
1,059	Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables	2000	SIGMOD	0.00012224962
2,284	Deciding Equivalences among Aggregate Queries	1998	PODS	8.6880978e-05
2,301	Querying Aggregate Data	1999	PODS	8.6620636e-05

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