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Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data

Summary: Orca proposes a modular, portable query-optimizer architecture for big data, reusable across Greenplum and HAWQ. It merges state-of-the-art optimization with original research, delivering a portable framework and measurable performance advantages over competing systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf1d3df89a2a0a18a
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00011239266
Overall Rank
1,276 | 91.43%
DOI
10.1145/2558855.2559637

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{soliman_sigmod14,
        title = {{Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data}},
        author = {Soliman, Mohamed A. and Antova, Lyublena and Raghavan, Venkatesh and El-Helw, Amr and Gu, Zhongxian and Shen, Entong and Caragea, George C. and Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos and Rahman, Foyzur and Petropoulos, Michalis and Waas, Florian and Narayanan, Sivaramakrishnan and Krikellas, Konstantinos and Baldwin, Rhonda},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2558855.2559637},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2558855.2559637},
        year = {2014}
}

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6,662 UPLIFT: Parallelization Strategies for Feature Transformations in Machine Learning Workloads 2022 VLDB 5.7171651e-05
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7,414 FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore 2019 SIGMOD 5.533302e-05
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9,113 Presto’s History-based Query Optimizer 2024 VLDB 5.2276066e-05
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9,740 TreeToaster: Towards an IVM-Optimized Compiler 2021 SIGMOD 5.1349531e-05
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11,018 TurboLynx in Action: A Schemaless Graph Engine for General-Purpose Analytics 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,375 GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,765 Asymptotically Better Query Optimization Using Indexed Algebra 2023 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,201 How Can Reasoners Simplify Database Querying (And Why Haven’t They Done It Yet)? 2018 PODS 4.9793485e-05
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