Efficient processing of relational queries with sum constraints

  • Authors:
  • Svetlozar Nestorov;Chuang Liu;Ian Foster

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL;Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL;Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • Venue:
  • APWeb/WAIM'07 Proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific web and 8th international conference on web-age information management conference on Advances in data and web management
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider relational queries involving one or more constraints over the sum of multiple attributes (sum constraint queries). We develop rewriting techniques to transform a sum constraint query in order to enable its efficient processing by conventional relational database engines. We also consider the problem of producing partial results for sum constraint queries. We propose a framework for ranking tuples in a relation according to their likelihood of contributing to a tuple in the result of a sum constraint query. Sorting tuples using this framework provides an alternative to traditional sorting based on single attribute value.