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Identifying Robust Plans through Plan Diagram Reduction

Summary: Identifies robust plans by reducing dense plan diagrams to anorexic equivalents that resist selectivity. Offers a mathematical criterion for safe plan reduction; TPC-H/DS studies show robustness but occasional degradations; implemented in Picasso. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hfb8645a9cc47cd95
Venue
VLDB
Year
2008
Pagerank
7.2310714e-05
Overall Rank
3,527 | 76.29%
DOI
10.14778/1453856.1453976

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BibTeX Citation

@article{d_vldb08,
        title = {{Identifying Robust Plans through Plan Diagram Reduction}},
        author = {D., Harish and Darera, Pooja N. and Haritsa, Jayant R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1124--1135},
        doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453976},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453976},
        year = {2008}
}

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1,606 The Picasso Database Query Optimizer Visualizer 2010 VLDB 0.00010089789
1,800 SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning 2018 VLDB 9.6093317e-05
1,987 Plan Bouquets: Query Processing without Selectivity Estimation 2014 SIGMOD 9.250242e-05
2,210 Lero: A Learning-to-Rank Query Optimizer 2023 VLDB 8.8257742e-05
3,178 Toward Computational Fact-Checking 2014 VLDB 7.5655186e-05
4,855 Efficiently Approximating Query Optimizer Plan Diagrams 2008 VLDB 6.3799739e-05
4,950 Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics 2025 SIGMOD 6.3421691e-05
5,456 Eraser: Eliminating Performance Regression on Learned Query Optimizer 2024 VLDB 6.1239873e-05
5,656 Uncertainty Aware Query Execution Time Prediction 2014 VLDB 6.0488629e-05
5,988 On the Stability of Plan Costs and the Costs of Plan Stability 2010 VLDB 5.9257426e-05
6,113 Robustness Metrics for Relational Query Execution Plans 2018 VLDB 5.8823242e-05
7,410 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 5.5342768e-05
7,597 On the Calculation of Optimality Ranges for Relational Query Execution Plans 2018 SIGMOD 5.4872821e-05
7,954 Robust Query Processing: Mission Possible 2020 VLDB 5.4190023e-05
8,159 A Concave Path to Low-overhead Robust Query Processing 2018 VLDB 5.3873068e-05
8,389 PARQO: Penalty-Aware Robust Plan Selection in Query Optimization 2024 VLDB 5.3413016e-05
8,524 ROME: Robust Query Optimization via Parallel Multi-Plan Execution 2024 SIGMOD 5.3231221e-05
9,720 APQO: An Adaptive Framework for Parametric Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 5.1349531e-05
9,730 PAR2QO: Parametric Penalty-Aware Robust Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 5.1349531e-05
9,904 AgentTune: An Agent-Based Large Language Model Framework for Database Knob Tuning 2026 SIGMOD 5.1103839e-05
10,368 Coresets for Robust Query Optimization 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
12,777 Visualizing the robustness of query execution 2009 CIDR 4.9793485e-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
91 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.0003475226
98 LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer 2001 VLDB 0.00034106982
149 Efficient Mid-Query Re-Optimization of Sub-Optimal Query Execution Plans 1998 SIGMOD 0.00028981723
397 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries 1986 SIGMOD 0.00019157058
454 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00017962189
481 Robust Query Processing through Progressive Optimization 2004 SIGMOD 0.00017603972
569 Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00016245271
836 Proactive Re-Optimization 2005 SIGMOD 0.00013557047
996 Analyzing Plan Diagrams of Database Query Optimizers 2005 VLDB 0.00012634603
1,122 Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: An Exercise in Utility 1999 PODS 0.0001193884
1,298 Parametric Query Optimization for Linear and Piecewise Linear Cost Functions 2002 VLDB 0.00011120288
1,612 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions 2003 VLDB 0.00010072731
1,821 Least Expected Cost Query Optimization: What Can We Expect? 2002 PODS 9.5687882e-05
4,657 On the Production of Anorexic Plan Diagrams 2007 VLDB 6.4824233e-05
4,855 Efficiently Approximating Query Optimizer Plan Diagrams 2008 VLDB 6.3799739e-05
6,029 Proactive Re-optimization with Rio 2005 SIGMOD 5.9105715e-05
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