Query Optimization In Compressed Database Systems

Summary: Proposes attribute-level compression via Hierarchical Dictionary Encoding for string-valued attributes and a compression-aware optimizer. Shows eager vs. lazy decompression is suboptimal; provides one provably optimal and two fast heuristic plan-selection algorithms, with TPC-H experiments achieving up to an order-of-magnitude speedup. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he0b634f838cb5d65
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 0.00013186558
Overall Rank: 900 | 93.96%
DOI: 10.1145/375663.375692

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Authors

1. Zhiyuan Chen (Cornell University)
2. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)
3. Flip Korn (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chen_sigmod01,
        title = {{Query Optimization In Compressed Database Systems}},
        author = {Chen, Zhiyuan and Gehrke, Johannes and Korn, Flip},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '01},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/375663.375692},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/375663.375692},
        year = {2001}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023947656
27	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.0005158963
125	Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates	1993	SIGMOD	0.00030470848
999	Data Compression Support in Databases	1994	VLDB	0.00012617745
1,016	XMill: an Efficient Compressor for XML Data	2000	SIGMOD	0.00012493064
1,196	Daytona And The Fourth-Generation Language Cymbal	1999	SIGMOD	0.00011572943
1,384	Query Processing in Main Memory Database Management Systems	1986	SIGMOD	0.00010845169
1,930	Optimizing Queries On Compressed Bitmaps	2000	VLDB	9.351027e-05
4,798	Aggregation Algorithms for Very Large Compressed Data Warehouses	1999	VLDB	6.4112766e-05

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