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Magic is Relevant

Summary: Extends the magic-sets transformation to relational systems with duplicates, aggregation, grouping, and recursion. Empirically compares with standard nonrecursive optimizers; shows magic-sets often outperform traditional methods as a general optimization technique for data queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h823230a4fc01971b
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00010618161
Overall Rank
1,443 | 90.33%
DOI
10.1145/93597.98734

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mumick_sigmod90,
        title = {{Magic is Relevant}},
        author = {Mumick, Inderpal Singh and Finkelstein, Sheldon J. and Pirahesh, Hamid and Ramakrishnan, Raghu},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/93597.98734},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.98734},
        year = {1990}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 26 of 26 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
109 Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst 1992 SIGMOD 0.00032702871
259 An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems 1998 PODS 0.00022881075
533 The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates 1990 VLDB 0.00016794756
822 Query Execution Techniques for Caching Expensive Methods 1996 SIGMOD 0.00013616674
1,032 Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00012376627
1,122 Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around 1994 VLDB 0.00011915958
1,725 Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP 2003 SIGMOD 9.7733128e-05
1,888 WeTune: Automatic Discovery and Verification of Query Rewrite Rules 2022 SIGMOD 9.4148912e-05
2,033 Practical Predicate Placement 1994 SIGMOD 9.1389597e-05
2,460 Algebraic Properties of Bag Data Types 1991 VLDB 8.413779e-05
3,194 Demonstration of the Cosette Automated SQL Prover 2017 SIGMOD 7.5310063e-05
3,378 Magic Conditions 1990 PODS 7.3454229e-05
3,685 Overbound and Right-Linear Queries 1991 PODS 7.081251e-05
3,702 Implementation of Magic-sets in a Relational Database System 1994 SIGMOD 7.0617354e-05
6,065 Magic Shapes for SHACL Validation 2022 VLDB 5.882179e-05
7,167 Optimizing Recursive Queries with Program Synthesis 2022 SIGMOD 5.5794956e-05
7,246 Adding Magic to an Optimising Datalog Compiler 2008 SIGMOD 5.5599899e-05
7,255 Changing the Rules: Transformations for Rule-Based Optimizers* 1998 SIGMOD 5.5581956e-05
7,300 Magic-sets Transformation in Nonrecursive Systems 1992 PODS 5.5461529e-05
7,941 SlabCity: Whole-Query Optimization using Program Synthesis 2023 VLDB 5.4056478e-05
8,042 Optimizing Iceberg Queries with Complex Joins 2017 SIGMOD 5.3852464e-05
8,291 Accelerate Distributed Joins with Predicate Transfer 2025 SIGMOD 5.3445863e-05
8,376 Optimizing Nested Recursive Queries 2024 SIGMOD 5.3279812e-05
9,022 Compiling Query Constraints 1994 PODS 5.2216313e-05
13,147 Soft Stratification for Magic Set Based Query Evaluation in Deductive Databases 2003 PODS 4.9605343e-05
13,360 Universal Finiteness and Satisfiability 1994 PODS 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 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 0.0023948467
18 MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1986 PODS 0.00058816744
67 An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies 1986 SIGMOD 0.0003786983
99 Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers 1987 VLDB 0.00034024478
133 Optimization of Nested SQL Queries Revisited 1987 SIGMOD 0.0003015194
197 Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives 1988 SIGMOD 0.00025558952
275 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.000224395
353 On the Power of Magic 1987 PODS 0.0002014941
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