E0 361 PAPERS (January 2026)

• Query Optimization

  1. The Volcano Optimizer Generator: Extensibility and Efficient Search, ICDE 1993   [Presenter: JH ]
     (Prior Reading: The Cascades Framework for Query Optimization, IEEE DEB 1995)  
     
  2. Query Optimizers: Time to Rethink the Contract?, SIGMOD 2009   [Presenter: JH]
  3. Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding Impact of Cardinality Errors, VLDB 2009   [Presenter: AJ]
  4. Adaptive Optimization of Very Large Join Queries, SIGMOD 2018   [Presenter: AbS]

• Query Execution

  5. Smooth Scan: Robust Access Path Selection without Cardinality Estimation, VLDBJ 2018   [Presenter: MS]
  6. Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams, VLDB 2002   [Presenter: PR]
  7. MonetDB/X100: Hyper-pipelining query execution, CIDR 2005   [Presenter: SP]
  8. Efficiently compiling efficient query plans for modern hardware, VLDB 2011   [Presenter: AS]

• Query Extraction

  9. FROID: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database, VLDB 2018   [Presenter: AJ]
  10. Shedding Light on Opaque Application Queries, SIGMOD 2021   [Presenter: MS]

• Database Indexing

  11. Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins using R-trees, SIGMOD 1993   [Presenter: PR]
  12. The Pyramid-Technique: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality, SIGMOD 1998   [Presenter: SP]
  13. Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach, SIGMOD 2005   [Presenter: AJ]
  14. The Case for Learned Index Structures, SIGMOD 2018   [Presenter: AS]

• Database Generation

  15. Reverse Query Processing, ICDE 2007   [Presenter: AbS]
  16. Generating Test Data for Killing SQL Mutants, ICDE 2011   [Presenter: SP]
  17. Synthesizing Linked Data Under Cardinality and Integrity Constraints, SIGMOD 2021   [Presenter: MS]
  18. Touchstone: Generating Enormous Query-Aware Test Databases, USENIX ATC 2018  [Presenter: PR]

• New Database Platforms

  19. BlockchainDB: A Shared Database on Blockchains, VLDB 2019   [Presenter: AS]
  20. Quantum Databases, CIDR 2013   [Presenter: AbS]
      
      
      

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