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Storage-based joins are still commonly used today because the memory budget does not always scale with the data size. One of the many join algorithms developed that has been widely deployed and proven to be efficient is the Hybrid Hash Join…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Zichen Zhu , Xiao Hu , Manos Athanassoulis

Join query optimization is a complex task and is central to the performance of query processing. In fact it belongs to the class of NP-hard problems. Traditional query optimizers use dynamic programming (DP) methods combined with a set of…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Jonas Heitz , Kurt Stockinger

Join order optimization is critical in achieving good query performance. Despite decades of research and practice, modern query optimizers could still generate inferior join plans that are orders of magnitude slower than optimal. Existing…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Junyi Zhao , Kai Su , Yifei Yang , Xiangyao Yu , Paraschos Koutris , Huanchen Zhang

It is crucial to provide real-time performance in many applications, such as interactive and exploratory data analysis. In these settings, users often need to view subsets of query results quickly. It is challenging to deliver such results…

Discovering which tables in large, heterogeneous repositories can be joined and by what transformations is a central challenge in data integration and data discovery. Traditional join discovery methods are largely designed for equi-joins,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ning Wang , Sainyam Galhotra

Join optimization has been dominated by Selinger-style, pairwise optimizers for decades. But, Selinger-style algorithms are asymptotically suboptimal for applications in graphic analytics. This suboptimality is one of the reasons that many…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Dung Nguyen , Molham Aref , Martin Bravenboer , George Kollias , Hung Q. Ngo , Christopher Ré , Atri Rudra

Identifying optimal join orders (JOs) stands out as a key challenge in database research and engineering. Owing to the large search space, established classical methods rely on approximations and heuristics. Recent efforts have successfully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Maja Franz , Tobias Winker , Sven Groppe , Wolfgang Mauerer

In stream processing, stream join is one of the critical sources of performance bottlenecks. The sliding-window-based stream join provides a precise result but consumes considerable computational resources. The current solutions lack…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Fei Pan , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Query optimization has become a research area where classical algorithms are being challenged by machine learning algorithms. At the same time, recent trends in learned query optimizers have shown that it is prudent to take advantage of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Pavel Sulimov , Claude Lehmann , Kurt Stockinger

We present a simple geometric framework for the relational join. Using this framework, we design an algorithm that achieves the fractional hypertree-width bound, which generalizes classical and recent worst-case algorithmic results on…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Hung Q. Ngo , Christopher Ré , Atri Rudra

Join ordering is the NP-hard problem of selecting the most efficient order in which to evaluate joins (conjunctive, binary operators) in a database query. Because query execution performance critically depends on this choice, join ordering…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Tim Schwabe , Maribel Acosta

The performance of worst-case optimal join algorithms depends on the order in which the join attributes are processed. Selecting good orders before query execution is hard, due to the large space of possible orders and unreliable execution…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Junxiong Wang , Immanuel Trummer , Ahmet Kara , Dan Olteanu

Most research on query optimization has centered on binary join algorithms like hash join and sort-merge join. However, recent years have seen growing interest in theoretically optimal algorithms, notably Yannakakis' algorithm. These…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zheng Luo , Wim Van den Broeck , Guy Van den Broeck , Yisu Remy Wang

Recent years have seen exciting developments in join algorithms. In 2008, Atserias, Grohe and Marx (henceforth AGM) proved a tight bound on the maximum result size of a full conjunctive query, given constraints on the input relation sizes.…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Todd L. Veldhuizen

Uniform sampling and approximate counting are fundamental primitives for modern database applications, ranging from query optimization to approximate query processing. While recent breakthroughs have established optimal sampling and…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xiao Hu , Jinchao Huang

Worst-case optimal join algorithms have so far been studied in two broad contexts -- $(1)$ when we are given input relation sizes [Atserias et al., FOCS 2008, Ngo et al., PODS 2012, Velduizhen et. al, ICDT 2014] $(2)$ when in addition to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Sai Vikneshwar Mani Jayaraman , Corey Ropell , Atri Rudra

We investigate applying general-purpose join algorithms to the triangle listing problem in an out-of-core context. In particular, we focus on Leapfrog Triejoin (LFTJ) by Veldhuizen 2014, a recently proposed, worst-case optimal algorithm. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Daniel Zinn

Joining records with all other records that meet a linkage condition can result in an astronomically large number of combinations due to many-to-many relationships. For such challenging (acyclic) joins, a random sample over the join result…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Michael Shekelyan , Graham Cormode , Peter Triantafillou , Ali Shanghooshabad , Qingzhi Ma

Hashing has been widely used for efficient similarity search based on its query and storage efficiency. To obtain better precision, most studies focus on designing different objective functions with different constraints or penalty terms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Yilong Yin

In many data analysis pipelines, a basic and time-consuming process is to produce join results and feed them into downstream tasks. Numerous enumeration algorithms have been developed for this purpose. To be a statistically meaningful…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Pengyu Chen , Zizheng Guo , Jianwei Yang , Dongjing Miao