Predicate Pushdown for Data Science Pipelines

Summary: MagicPush uses a search-verification approach to predicate pushdown in data science pipelines, discovering input-space predicates and proving pushdown preserves outputs, even with non-relational operators and UDFs. Evaluations on TPC-H and 200 real-world GitHub Notebook pipelines show it beats a strong rule-based baseline, discovers new pushdown opportunities, and yields up to 99% running-time reduction in 42 pipelines while matching baseline opportunities elsewhere. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb4a7fd26bb386237
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.3891786e-05
Overall Rank: 8,153 | 45.19%
DOI: 10.1145/3589281

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Cong Yan (Microsoft)
2. Yin Lin (University of Michigan)
3. Yeye He (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yan_sigmod23,
        title = {{Predicate Pushdown for Data Science Pipelines}},
        author = {Yan, Cong and Lin, Yin and He, Yeye},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3589281},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589281},
        year = {2023}
}

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9,694	The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries	2025	VLDB	5.1396592e-05
10,080	LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics	2025	VLDB	5.0830849e-05
10,630	Data-Semantics-Aware Recommendation of Diverse Pivot Tables	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,843	I-Rex: An Interactive Debugger for SQL	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,126	Dynamic Pruning for Recursive Joins	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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23	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00055406774
125	Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates	1993	SIGMOD	0.00030470848
310	Optimization of Real Conjunctive Queries	1993	PODS	0.00021374145
896	Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database	2018	VLDB	0.00013209291
1,119	Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around	1994	VLDB	0.00011950395
1,132	Qd-tree: Learning Data Layouts for Big Data Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011898257
1,696	PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Optimization and Execution Strategies in an RDBMS	2004	VLDB	9.8545415e-05
1,803	Tuplex: Data Science in Python at Native Code Speed	2021	SIGMOD	9.6068397e-05
1,884	SQL-on-Hadoop: Full Circle Back to Shared-Nothing Database Architectures	2014	VLDB	9.4388097e-05
1,893	WeTune: Automatic Discovery and Verification of Query Rewrite Rules	2022	SIGMOD	9.4126198e-05
1,952	Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations	2020	VLDB	9.3189525e-05
2,207	Magpie: Python at Speed and Scale using Cloud Backends	2021	CIDR	8.8487039e-05
2,436	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.4708399e-05
2,484	AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud	2019	VLDB	8.3993882e-05
2,641	Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks	2020	SIGMOD	8.1787073e-05
3,073	Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters	2020	VLDB	7.6777283e-05
3,202	Demonstration of the Cosette Automated SQL Prover	2017	SIGMOD	7.5411821e-05
3,297	Automated Verification of Query Equivalence Using Satisfiability Modulo Theories	2019	VLDB	7.4452842e-05
3,520	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	7.2360022e-05
4,061	Aggify: Lifting the Curse of Cursor Loops using Custom Aggregates	2020	SIGMOD	6.824809e-05
4,654	Automatically Leveraging MapReduce Frameworks for Data-Intensive Applications	2018	SIGMOD	6.4849398e-05
5,446	Crystal: A Unified Cache Storage System for Analytical Databases	2021	VLDB	6.1266228e-05
6,147	Sia: Optimizing Queries using Learned Predicates	2021	SIGMOD	5.8710365e-05
6,212	YeSQL: "You extend SQL" with Rich and Highly Performant User-Defined Functions in Relational Databases	2022	VLDB	5.8480745e-05
6,290	Incorporating Super-Operators in Big-Data Query Optimizers	2020	VLDB	5.8223076e-05
7,139	Optimizing Recursive Queries with Program Synthesis	2022	SIGMOD	5.6006128e-05
10,156	Generating Application-Specific Data Layouts for In-memory Databases	2019	VLDB	5.0707546e-05

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