The MemSQL Query Optimizer: A modern optimizer for real-time analytics in a distributed database
Summary: Presents MemSQL’s distribution-aware optimizer for sub-second, complex analytics on a scale-out engine. Jointly considers rewrites, join enumeration, and distributed costing, using rewrite-based bushy-join exploration to improve plans without sacrificing optimization speed. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jack Chen (MemSQL)
- 2. Samir Jindel (MemSQL)
- 3. Robert Walzer (MemSQL)
- 4. Rajkumar Sen (MemSQL)
- 5. Nika Jimsheleishvilli (MemSQL)
- 6. Michael Andrews (MemSQL)
BibTeX Citation
@article{chen_vldb16,
title = {{The MemSQL Query Optimizer: A modern optimizer for real-time analytics in a distributed database}},
author = {Chen, Jack and Jindel, Samir and Walzer, Robert and Sen, Rajkumar and Jimsheleishvilli, Nika and Andrews, Michael},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {13},
pages = {1401--1412},
doi = {10.14778/3007263.3007272},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3007263.3007272},
year = {2016}
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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 |
| 179 | The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00026611886 |
| 321 | Measuring the Complexity of Join Enumeration in Query Optimization | 1990 | VLDB | 0.00021088704 |
| 479 | The Making of TPC-DS | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00017622471 |
| 708 | Optimization of Large Join Queries: Combining Heuristics and Combinatorial Techniques | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00014629998 |
| 1,276 | Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00011239266 |
| 2,088 | Query Optimization in Microsoft SQL Server PDW | 2012 | SIGMOD | 9.0664537e-05 |
| 3,775 | Parallelizing Query Optimization | 2008 | VLDB | 7.0272615e-05 |
| 4,052 | Of Snowstorms and Bushy Trees | 2014 | VLDB | 6.8283077e-05 |
| 6,136 | Parallelizing Extensible Query Optimizers | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.8759799e-05 |
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