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MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Presents magic sets, a rewriting that turns goal-directed logic programs into bottom-up evaluation to prune irrelevant facts and leverage efficient bulk joins. Compares ad-hoc linear-rule implementations and emphasizes the challenge of proving optimal evaluation strategies. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
ha405f7107a24aa27
Venue
PODS
Year
1986
Pagerank
0.00059023577
Overall Rank
18 | 99.89%
DOI
10.1145/6012.15399

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bancilhon_pods86,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '86},
        title = {{MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/6012.15399},
        doi = {10.1145/6012.15399},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Bancilhon, Francois and Maier, David and Sagiv, Yehoshua and Ullman, Jeffrey D.},
        year = {1986}
}

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67 An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00038009523
272 An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems 1998 PODS 0.00022509573
273 Extensible Query Processing in Starburst 1989 SIGMOD 0.00022504729
305 A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion 1987 SIGMOD 0.0002159111
317 OPTIMIZING DATALOG PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1987 PODS 0.00021220438
352 On the Power of Magic 1987 PODS 0.00020223279
356 Regular Path Queries with Constraints 1997 PODS 0.00020103855
440 On the Implementation of a Simple Class of Logic Queries for Databases 1986 PODS 0.00018227953
531 The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates 1990 VLDB 0.00016847212
635 LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language 1986 VLDB 0.00015368492
828 Logic Programming With Sets 1987 PODS 0.00013614671
859 Query Optimization by Simulated Annealing 1987 SIGMOD 0.00013418999
1,000 Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization 2006 SIGMOD 0.00012607089
1,032 Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation 1996 SIGMOD 0.00012401489
1,049 Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1) 1987 PODS 0.0001229888
1,119 Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around 1994 VLDB 0.00011950395
1,166 PrivateSQL: A Differentially Private SQL Query Engine 2019 VLDB 0.00011731286
1,201 Data Independent Recursion in Deductive Databases 1986 PODS 0.00011560838
1,287 On the Computation of the Transitive Closure of Relational Operators 1986 VLDB 0.00011184757
1,332 An Algorithm For Ordering Subgoals In Nail! 1988 PODS 0.00010998392
1,438 Magic is Relevant 1990 SIGMOD 0.00010648031
1,682 Bounds on the Propagation of Selection into Logic Programs 1987 PODS 9.8850863e-05
1,867 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 9.4806184e-05
1,979 Efficient Evaluation of Right-, Left-, and Multi-Linear Rules 1989 SIGMOD 9.2716242e-05
2,024 Proof-Tree Transformation Theorems and Their Applications 1989 PODS 9.166955e-05
2,032 Practical Predicate Placement 1994 SIGMOD 9.1561026e-05
2,065 One-Sided Recursions 1987 PODS 9.0940924e-05
2,099 Evaluation Of Database Recursive Logic Programs As Recurrent Function Series 1986 SIGMOD 9.0515975e-05
2,109 A Study of Transitive Closure As a Recursion Mechanism 1987 SIGMOD 9.0238479e-05
2,473 Diagnosis of Asynchronous Discrete Event Systems: Datalog to the Rescue! 2005 PODS 8.4120524e-05
2,528 Logic Programming as Constructivism: A Formalization and its Application to Databases 1989 PODS 8.3404822e-05
2,551 Aggregation and Relevance in Deductive Databases 1991 VLDB 8.3095988e-05
3,020 Graph-Theoretic Methods In Database Theory 1990 PODS 7.7448163e-05
3,073 Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters 2020 VLDB 7.6777283e-05
3,101 On Optimizing Operator Fusion Plans for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML 2018 VLDB 7.649219e-05
3,143 Query Optimization Techniques for Partitioned Tables 2011 SIGMOD 7.5981026e-05
3,364 Magic Conditions 1990 PODS 7.3731362e-05
3,415 A Framework for Testing Safety and Effective Computability of Extended Datalog (Extended Abstract) 1988 SIGMOD 7.3235908e-05
3,640 The Complexity Of Ordering Subgoals 1988 PODS 7.1439794e-05
3,707 Implementation of Magic-sets in a Relational Database System 1994 SIGMOD 7.0820673e-05
3,713 Compiling Separable Recursions 1988 SIGMOD 7.0770304e-05
3,763 Dynamically Distributed Query Evaluation 2001 PODS 7.0419284e-05
3,848 Right-, left- and multi-linear rule transformations that maintain context information 1990 VLDB 6.9827773e-05
4,158 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.7735939e-05
4,187 Argument Reduction by Factoring 1989 VLDB 6.748235e-05
4,205 Distributed Processing Of Logic Programs 1988 SIGMOD 6.735459e-05
4,400 Shared Arrangements: practical inter-query sharing for streaming dataflows 2020 VLDB 6.6151947e-05
4,425 Magic Counting Methods 1987 SIGMOD 6.6039832e-05
4,479 EFFICIENT EVALUATION FOR A SUBSET OF RECURSIVE QUERIES (Extended Abstract) 1987 PODS 6.5811933e-05
4,556 Why A Single Parallelization Strategy Is Not Enough In Knowledge Bases 1989 PODS 6.5378593e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
349 A Message Passing Framework for Logical Query Evaluation 1986 SIGMOD 0.00020255174
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