POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance
Summary: POLAR non-invasively augments left-deep pipelines with alternative join orders and regret-bounded tuple routing to self-select “plans of least resistance.” In DuckDB, it delivers up to 9× speedups with <7% overhead, outperforming prior AQP by 15×. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. David Justen (Technical University of Berlin)
- 2. Daniel Ritter (SAP)
- 3. Campbell Fraser (Google)
- 4. Andrew Lamb (InfluxData)
- 5. Nga Tran (InfluxData)
- 6. Allison Lee (Snowflake)
- 7. Thomas Bodner (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 8. Mhd Yamen Haddad (Ecole Polytechnique; INRIA)
- 9. Steffen Zeuch (Technical University of Berlin)
- 10. Volker Markl (Technical University of Berlin)
- 11. Matthias Boehm (Technical University of Berlin)
BibTeX Citation
@article{justen_vldb24,
title = {{POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance}},
author = {Justen, David and Ritter, Daniel and Fraser, Campbell and Lamb, Andrew and Tran, Nga and Lee, Allison and Bodner, Thomas and Haddad, Mhd Yamen and Zeuch, Steffen and Markl, Volker and Boehm, Matthias},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {6},
pages = {1350--1363},
doi = {10.14778/3648160.3648175},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3648160.3648175},
year = {2024}
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,945 | Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics | 2025 | SIGMOD | 6.3418058e-05 |
| 9,654 | Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example | 2025 | VLDB | 5.142891e-05 |
| 10,107 | Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? | 2025 | VLDB | 5.0765311e-05 |
| 10,514 | SmartRabbit: An Interactive Query Processor | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,842 | ReSequel: Robust LLM-assisted Query Rewriting and Optimization using Templatization and Sampling | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,867 | Sema: A High-performance System for LLM-based Semantic Query Processing | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,937 | Real-time SQL Plan Management in Oracle | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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