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The ability to estimate resource consumption of SQL queries is crucial for a number of tasks in a database system such as admission control, query scheduling and costing during query optimization. Recent work has explored the use of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Jiexing Li , Arnd Christian König , Vivek Narasayya , Surajit Chaudhuri

Query optimizers in RDBMSs search for execution plans expected to be optimal for given queries. They use parameter estimates, often inaccurate, and make assumptions that may not hold in practice. Consequently, they may select plans that are…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Amin Kamali , Verena Kantere , Calisto Zuzarte , Vincent Corvinelli

Query optimization is a fundamental task in database systems that is crucial to providing high performance. To evaluate learned and traditional optimizer's performance, several benchmarks, such as the widely used JOB benchmark, are used.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Johannes Wehrstein , Timo Eckmann , Roman Heinrich , Carsten Binnig

Query optimization is one of the most challenging problems in database systems. Despite the progress made over the past decades, query optimizers remain extremely complex components that require a great deal of hand-tuning for specific…

Query optimization remains one of the most important and well-studied problems in database systems. However, traditional query optimizers are complex heuristically-driven systems, requiring large amounts of time to tune for a particular…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Ryan Marcus , Olga Papaemmanouil

Database management systems (DBMSs) carefully optimize complex multi-join queries to avoid expensive disk I/O. As servers today feature tens or hundreds of gigabytes of RAM, a significant fraction of many analytic databases becomes…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Feilong Liu , Spyros Blanas

The principal component of conventional database query optimizers is a cost model that is used to estimate expected performance of query plans. The accuracy of the cost model has direct impact on the optimality of execution plans selected…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Nikita Vasilenko , Alexander Demin , Denis Ponomaryov

Modern analytical workloads are highly heterogeneous and massively complex, making generic query optimizers untenable for many customers and scenarios. As a result, it is important to specialize these optimizers to instances of the…

Traditional query optimization relies on cost-based optimizers that estimate execution cost (e.g., runtime, memory, and I/O) using predefined heuristics and statistical models. Improving these heuristics requires substantial engineering…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mehmet Hamza Erol , Xiangpeng Hao , Federico Bianchi , Ciro Greco , Jacopo Tagliabue , James Zou

The current boom of learned query optimizers (LQO) can be explained not only by the general continuous improvement of deep learning (DL) methods but also by the straightforward formulation of a query optimization problem (QOP) as a machine…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Claude Lehmann , Pavel Sulimov , Kurt Stockinger

Query optimization, which finds the optimized execution plan for a given query, is a complex planning and decision-making problem within the exponentially growing plan space in database management systems (DBMS). Traditional optimizers…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jie Tan , Kangfei Zhao , Rui Li , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Chengzhi Piao , Hong Cheng , Helen Meng , Deli Zhao , Yu Rong

In a modern DBMS, working memory is frequently the limiting factor when processing in-memory analytic query operations such as joins, sorting, and aggregation. Existing resource estimation approaches for a DBMS estimate the resource…

Recent work in database query optimization has used complex machine learning strategies, such as customized reinforcement learning schemes. Surprisingly, we show that LLM embeddings of query text contain useful semantic information for…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Peter Akioyamen , Zixuan Yi , Ryan Marcus

Although machine learning (ML) shows potential in improving query optimization by generating and selecting more efficient plans, ensuring the robustness of learning-based cost models (LCMs) remains challenging. These LCMs currently lack…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Baoming Chang , Amin Kamali , Verena Kantere

Cost-based query optimizers remain one of the most important components of database management systems for analytic workloads. Though modern optimizers select plans close to optimal performance in the common case, a small number of queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Matthew Perron , Zeyuan Shang , Tim Kraska , Michael Stonebraker

In modern large-scale distributed systems, analytics jobs submitted by various users often share similar work, for example scanning and processing the same subset of data. Instead of optimizing jobs independently, which may result in…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Pietro Michiardi , Damiano Carra , Sara Migliorini

Although the many efforts to apply deep reinforcement learning to query optimization in recent years, there remains room for improvement as query optimizers are complex entities that require hand-designed tuning of workloads and datasets.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yuri Kim , Yewon Choi , Yujung Gil , Sanghee Lee , Heesik Shin , Jaehyok Chong

This thesis explores the benefits machine learning algorithms can bring to online planning and scheduling for autonomous vehicles in off-road situations. Mainly, we focus on typical problems of interest which include computing itineraries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Kevin Osanlou

Declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) aims at the specification of ML algorithms in a high-level language and automatic generation of hybrid runtime execution plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations to distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Matthias Boehm

The query optimizer in a Database Management Systems (DBMS), translates declarative queries into efficient execution plans. Conventional bottom-up optimization consists of two main stages: Query Rewrite (QRW) and Cost-Based Optimization…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Qi Cheng , Yang Sun , Weidong Yu , Danny Chen , Weicheng Wang , Chong Chen , Per-Ake Larson