Paper Review: The Volcano Optimizer Generator: Extensibility and Efficient Search

Title and Author of Paper The Volcano Optimizer Generator: Extensibility and Efficient Search. Goetz Graefe and William J. McKenna. Summary The query optimizer’s job is to take user input in the form of SQL and generate a cost-efficient plan for satisfying that query using the underlying physical layout of the database. This paper describes Volcano, a system for taking a data model, logical algebra, physical algebra, and optimization rules and translating them into optimizer source code....

October 11, 2016 · 3 min · Kevin Sookocheff