LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency

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Main Authors: Li, Zhaodonghui, Yuan, Haitao, Wang, Huiming, Cong, Gao, Bing, Lidong
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author Li, Zhaodonghui
Yuan, Haitao
Wang, Huiming
Cong, Gao
Bing, Lidong
author_facet Li, Zhaodonghui
Yuan, Haitao
Wang, Huiming
Cong, Gao
Bing, Lidong
contents Query rewrite, which aims to generate more efficient queries by altering a SQL query's structure without changing the query result, has been an important research problem. In order to maintain equivalence between the rewritten query and the original one during rewriting, traditional query rewrite methods always rewrite the queries following certain rewrite rules. However, some problems still remain. Firstly, existing methods of finding the optimal choice or sequence of rewrite rules are still limited and the process always costs a lot of resources. Methods involving discovering new rewrite rules typically require complicated proofs of structural logic or extensive user interactions. Secondly, current query rewrite methods usually rely highly on DBMS cost estimators which are often not accurate. In this paper, we address these problems by proposing a novel method of query rewrite named LLM-R2, adopting a large language model (LLM) to propose possible rewrite rules for a database rewrite system. To further improve the inference ability of LLM in recommending rewrite rules, we train a contrastive model by curriculum to learn query representations and select effective query demonstrations for the LLM. Experimental results have shown that our method can significantly improve the query execution efficiency and outperform the baseline methods. In addition, our method enjoys high robustness across different datasets.
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spellingShingle LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency
Li, Zhaodonghui
Yuan, Haitao
Wang, Huiming
Cong, Gao
Bing, Lidong
Databases
Computation and Language
Query rewrite, which aims to generate more efficient queries by altering a SQL query's structure without changing the query result, has been an important research problem. In order to maintain equivalence between the rewritten query and the original one during rewriting, traditional query rewrite methods always rewrite the queries following certain rewrite rules. However, some problems still remain. Firstly, existing methods of finding the optimal choice or sequence of rewrite rules are still limited and the process always costs a lot of resources. Methods involving discovering new rewrite rules typically require complicated proofs of structural logic or extensive user interactions. Secondly, current query rewrite methods usually rely highly on DBMS cost estimators which are often not accurate. In this paper, we address these problems by proposing a novel method of query rewrite named LLM-R2, adopting a large language model (LLM) to propose possible rewrite rules for a database rewrite system. To further improve the inference ability of LLM in recommending rewrite rules, we train a contrastive model by curriculum to learn query representations and select effective query demonstrations for the LLM. Experimental results have shown that our method can significantly improve the query execution efficiency and outperform the baseline methods. In addition, our method enjoys high robustness across different datasets.
title LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency
topic Databases
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12872