Steinar H. Gunderson: MySQL hypergraph optimizer
Planet Debian [Unofficial]
May 10, 2026
MySQL released (well, flipped the default compilation flag for) the hypergraph join optimizer in the community builds; this was the main project I started and worked on while I was there, so it's nice to see even though it's been default in e.g. their cloud column store for a long time. You can read their blog post (though beware, likely-LLM text ahead).
(The cost model improvements and TPC-DS benchmarking are from after my time.)
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