In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics

Summary: In-database analytics via FPGA; DAnA auto-maps high-level analytics queries (Python-DSL UDFs) to hardware. Striders attach to the DB buffer pool; end-to-end FPGA analytics on PostgreSQL yields ~8x avg speedup (up to 28x), beating MADLib, with 30–60 lines of Python. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11809
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 7.2035518e-05
Overall Rank: 3,682 | 74.74%
DOI: 10.14778/3236187.3236188

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Authors

1. Divya Mahajan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
2. Joon Kyung Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3. Jacob Sacks (Georgia Institute of Technology)
4. Adel Ardalan (University of Wisconsin)
5. Arun Kumar (University of California San Diego)
6. Hadi Esmaeilzadeh (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@article{mahajan_vldb18,
        title = {{In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics}},
        author = {Mahajan, Divya and Kim, Joon Kyung and Sacks, Jacob and Ardalan, Adel and Kumar, Arun and Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1317--1331},
        doi = {10.14778/3236187.3236188},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3236187.3236188},
        year = {2018}
}

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106	The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL	2012	VLDB	0.00033539462
155	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00028713176
425	Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale	2013	SIGMOD	0.00018704491
518	Towards a Unified Architecture for in-RDBMS Analytics	2012	SIGMOD	0.00017167492
715	Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data	2015	SIGMOD	0.00014655327
922	Data Processing on FPGAs	2009	VLDB	0.00013207382
1,150	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00011943462
1,229	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00011578425
1,250	Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011485301
1,442	An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows	2015	VLDB	0.00010778486
1,666	HippogriffDB: Balancing I/O and GPU Bandwidth in Big Data Analytics	2016	VLDB	0.00010068964
1,986	Scalable Probabilistic Databases with Factor Graphs and MCMC	2010	VLDB	9.3519536e-05
4,512	SVM in Oracle Database 10g: Removing the Barriers to Widespread Adoption of Support Vector Machines	2005	VLDB	6.6512296e-05
4,840	FPGA-based Data Partitioning	2017	SIGMOD	6.483442e-05
4,897	GLADE: Big Data Analytics Made Easy	2012	SIGMOD	6.4546134e-05
4,935	Querying Probabilistic Information Extraction	2010	VLDB	6.4357418e-05
5,695	Incrementally Maintaining Classification using an RDBMS	2011	VLDB	6.1183313e-05
8,425	doppioDB: A Hardware Accelerated Database	2017	SIGMOD	5.426661e-05

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