A system includes reception of a query comprising a join operation on a first table and a second table and a join condition associated with the join operation, determination of a first table column of the first table and a second table column of the second table associated with the join condition, determination of an inferred predicate of the query, the inferred predicate associated with a first column dictionary of the first table column and a second column dictionary of the second table column, determination of a cost of using the inferred predicate to perform the join operation, determination of a plurality of query execution plans to execute the join operation using the inferred predicate, and determination of a cost of each of the plurality of query execution plans based on the cost of using the inferred predicate to perform the join operation.