DunceCap: Query Plans Using Generalized Hypertree Decompositions
Summary: Query plans are cast as generalized hypertree decompositions and scored by minimal fractional hypertree width to bound worst-case join runtimes. Benchmarked on Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection, DunceCap rivals LogicBlox on cyclic queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Susan Tu (Stanford University)
- 2. Christopher Ré (Stanford University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{tu_sigmod15,
title = {{DunceCap: Query Plans Using Generalized Hypertree Decompositions}},
author = {Tu, Susan and Ré, Christopher},
series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2723372.2764946},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2764946},
year = {2015}
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| 1,570 | AJAR: Aggregations and Joins over Annotated Relations | 2016 | PODS | 0.0001020855 |
| 5,601 | HyperBench: A Benchmark and Tool for Hypergraphs and Empirical Findings | 2019 | PODS | 6.0706976e-05 |
| 6,264 | General and Fractional Hypertree Decompositions: Hard and Easy Cases | 2018 | PODS | 5.8308708e-05 |
| 7,529 | Fast Local Subgraph Counting | 2024 | VLDB | 5.5009945e-05 |
| 7,917 | Avoiding Materialisation for Guarded Aggregate Queries | 2025 | VLDB | 5.4276002e-05 |
| 8,091 | Ranked Enumeration of Minimal Triangulations | 2019 | PODS | 5.3942942e-05 |
| 8,493 | SPRINTER: A Fast n-ary Join Query Processing Method for Complex OLAP Queries | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.3310013e-05 |
| 9,516 | Efficiently Enumerating Minimal Triangulations | 2017 | PODS | 5.1690578e-05 |
| 11,185 | Fast Hypertree Decompositions via Linear Programming: Fractional and Generalized | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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| 402 | Worst-case Optimal Join Algorithms | 2012 | PODS | 0.00019104625 |
| 684 | Generalized Hypertree Decompositions: NP-Hardness and Tractable Variants | 2007 | PODS | 0.00014798237 |
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