Unnesting arbitrary queries

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Abstract

SQL-99 allows for nested subqueries at nearly all places within a query. From a user's point of view, nested queries can greatly simplify the formulation of complex queries. However, nested queries that are correlated with the outer queries frequently lead to dependent joins with nested loops evaluations and thus poor performance. Existing systems therefore use a number of heuristics to unnest these queries, i.e.. de-correlate them. These unnesting techniques can greatly speed up query processing, but are usually limited to certain classes of queries. To the best of our knowledge no existing system can de-correlate queries in the general case. We present a generic approach for unnesting arbitrary queries. As a result, the de-correlated queries allow for much simpler and much more efficient query evaluation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDatenbanksysteme fur Business, Technologie und Web, BTW 2015 - Proceedings
EditorsKai-Uwe Sattler, Wolfram Wingerath, Harald Schoning, Steffen Friedrich, Thomas Seidl, Norbert Ritter, Theo Harder
PublisherGesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
Pages383-402
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9783885796350
StatePublished - 2015
Event16. Fachtagung "Datenbanksysteme fur Business, Technologie und Web", BTW 2015 - 16th Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web, BTW 2015 - Hamburg, Germany
Duration: 4 Mar 20156 Mar 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
Volume241
ISSN (Print)1617-5468

Conference

Conference16. Fachtagung "Datenbanksysteme fur Business, Technologie und Web", BTW 2015 - 16th Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web, BTW 2015
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHamburg
Period4/03/156/03/15

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