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Plan-Structured Deep Neural Network Models for Query Performance Prediction

Summary: Plan-structured deep neural networks that mirror optimizer plans to predict query latency. No hand-crafted features; learns operator-input interactions, adapts to workloads, with training optimizations, achieving state-of-the-art performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hee6e281a3bbcfd74
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00016403151
Overall Rank
560 | 96.24%
DOI
10.14778/3342263.3342646

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BibTeX Citation

@article{marcus_vldb19,
        title = {{Plan-Structured Deep Neural Network Models for Query Performance Prediction}},
        author = {Marcus, Ryan and Papaemmanouil, Olga},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1733--1746},
        doi = {10.14778/3342263.3342646},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3342263.3342646},
        year = {2019}
}

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2,210 Lero: A Learning-to-Rank Query Optimizer 2023 VLDB 8.8257742e-05
2,250 QueryFormer: A Tree Transformer Model for Query Plan Representation 2022 VLDB 8.7533306e-05
2,275 Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems 2020 SIGMOD 8.7090584e-05
2,395 A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search 2022 VLDB 8.5281914e-05
2,690 Cost-based or Learning-based? A Hybrid Query Optimizer for Query Plan Selection 2022 VLDB 8.1258173e-05
2,842 Query Performance Prediction for Concurrent Queries using Graph Embedding 2020 VLDB 7.949193e-05
2,846 FactorJoin: A New Cardinality Estimation Framework for Join Queries 2023 SIGMOD 7.9453616e-05
2,885 Zero-Shot Cost Models for Out-of-the-box Learned Cost Prediction 2022 VLDB 7.9094988e-05
2,908 AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI 2021 SIGMOD 7.8742664e-05
3,271 Estimating Cardinalities with Deep Sketches 2019 SIGMOD 7.4744941e-05
3,563 Auto-WLM: Machine Learning Enhanced Workload Management in Amazon Redshift 2023 SIGMOD 7.2042148e-05
3,590 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.1865343e-05
3,682 openGauss: An Autonomous Database System 2021 VLDB 7.1013922e-05
3,703 Stable Learned Bloom Filters for Data Streams 2020 VLDB 7.0842566e-05
3,965 MB2: Decomposed Behavior Modeling for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.8918628e-05
4,258 LEON: A New Framework for ML-Aided Query Optimization 2023 VLDB 6.6994722e-05
4,538 One Model to Rule them All: Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases 2022 CIDR 6.553705e-05
4,711 Learned Index Benefits: Machine Learning Based Index Performance Estimation 2022 VLDB 6.4573842e-05
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5,058 Fine-Grained Modeling and Optimization for Intelligent Resource Management in Big Data Processing 2022 VLDB 6.2926774e-05
5,126 Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach 2020 SIGMOD 6.261175e-05
5,194 Database Workload Characterization with Query Plan Encoders 2022 VLDB 6.2353557e-05
5,214 Stage: Query Execution Time Prediction in Amazon Redshift 2024 SIGMOD 6.2248104e-05
5,456 Eraser: Eliminating Performance Regression on Learned Query Optimizer 2024 VLDB 6.1239873e-05
5,481 A Comparative Study and Component Analysis of Query Plan Representation Techniques in ML4DB Studies 2024 VLDB 6.1125124e-05
5,674 HMAB: Self-Driving Hierarchy of Bandits for Integrated Physical Database Design Tuning 2023 VLDB 6.0430252e-05
5,683 How Good are Learned Cost Models, Really? Insights from Query Optimization Tasks 2025 SIGMOD 6.0392183e-05
5,865 Modeling Shifting Workloads for Learned Database Systems 2024 SIGMOD 5.9659203e-05
6,141 Expand your Training Limits! Generating Training Data for ML-based Data Management 2021 SIGMOD 5.8733296e-05
6,416 A Unified Transferable Model for ML-Enhanced DBMS 2022 CIDR 5.7920805e-05
7,033 Rethinking Learned Cost Models: Why Start from Scratch? 2023 SIGMOD 5.6168499e-05
7,160 Cost-Intelligent Data Analytics in the Cloud 2024 CIDR 5.5962258e-05
7,217 Refactoring Index Tuning Process with Benefit Estimation 2024 VLDB 5.5834823e-05
7,460 T3: Accurate and Fast Performance Prediction for Relational Database Systems With Compiled Decision Trees 2025 SIGMOD 5.5215755e-05
7,864 Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD 2024 VLDB 5.4367919e-05
7,905 CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning 2024 SIGMOD 5.4291824e-05
7,915 Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.4276987e-05
7,977 The Holon Approach for Simultaneously Tuning Multiple Components in a Self-Driving Database Management System with Machine Learning via Synthesized Proto-Actions 2024 VLDB 5.4142519e-05
8,332 Learned Offline Query Planning via Bayesian Optimization 2025 SIGMOD 5.3528188e-05
8,563 Robust and Budget-Constrained Encoding Configurations for In-Memory Database Systems 2022 VLDB 5.3138647e-05
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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
21 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00056855599
40 The Case for Learned Index Structures 2018 SIGMOD 0.00046284649
53 Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing 2000 SIGMOD 0.00040860054
85 Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 0.00035864347
98 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00034106982
158 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00028046388
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024013745
386 Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding the Impact of Cardinality Estimation Errors 2009 VLDB 0.00019444411
454 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00017962189
479 The Making of TPC-DS 2006 VLDB 0.00017622471
569 Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00016245271
629 Performance Prediction for Concurrent Database Workloads 2011 SIGMOD 0.00015429949
682 Robust Estimation of Resource Consumption for SQL Queries using Statistical Techniques 2012 VLDB 0.0001481781
1,159 Toward a Progress Indicator for Database Queries 2004 SIGMOD 0.00011771949
1,688 ParaTimer: A Progress Indicator for MapReduce DAGs 2010 SIGMOD 9.8645784e-05
2,433 Cardinality Estimation Using Sample Views with Quality Assurance 2007 SIGMOD 8.4766785e-05
2,625 Statistical Learning Techniques for Costing XML Queries 2005 VLDB 8.2089383e-05
2,981 WiSeDB: A Learning-based Workload Management Advisor for Cloud Databases 2016 VLDB 7.7851845e-05
3,060 Towards a Hands-Free Query Optimizer through Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 7.6928239e-05
3,519 Towards Predicting Query Execution Time for Concurrent and Dynamic Database Workloads 2013 VLDB 7.2389387e-05
6,241 Operator and Query Progress Estimation in Microsoft SQL Server Live Query Statistics 2016 SIGMOD 5.8381762e-05
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