Rafiki: Machine Learning as an Analytics Service System

Summary: Rafiki provides ML as an analytics service, decoupling training and inference from DB engines. It enables distributed hyper-parameter tuning for training and online ensemble inference to balance latency and accuracy. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11824
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.9526539e-05
Overall Rank: 4,748 | 66.98%
DOI: 10.14778/3282495.3282499

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

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3,407	End-to-end Optimization of Machine Learning Prediction Queries	2022	SIGMOD	7.1295646e-05
4,557	Distributed Deep Learning on Data Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches	2021	VLDB	6.087611e-05
5,072	Optimizing Machine Learning Inference Queries with Correlative Proxy Models	2022	VLDB	5.7185674e-05
7,061	Serving Deep Learning Models with Deduplication from Relational Databases	2022	VLDB	4.8463881e-05
7,269	Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving	2022	SIGMOD	4.7815303e-05
7,311	The Machine Learning Bazaar: Harnessing the ML Ecosystem for Effective System Development	2020	SIGMOD	4.7656884e-05
8,080	Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines	2024	VLDB	4.5911668e-05
9,192	Hyper-Tune: Towards Efficient Hyper-parameter Tuning at Scale	2022	VLDB	4.3765131e-05
9,320	Powering In-Database Dynamic Model Slicing for Structured Data Analytics	2024	VLDB	4.3556432e-05
9,323	FEAST: A Communication-efficient Federated Feature Selection Framework for Relational Data	2023	SIGMOD	4.3556432e-05
10,325	KEN: An Execution Engine for Unstructured Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,560	A Systematic Study on Early Stopping Metrics in HPO and the Implications of Uncertainty	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,998	Database Native Model Selection: Harnessing Deep Neural Networks in Database Systems	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,538	Quality of Sentiment Analysis Tools: The Reasons of Inconsistency	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
316	NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00027988668
664	Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud	2011	CIDR	0.00018465843
1,391	Ease.ml: Towards Multi-tenant Resource Sharing for Machine Learning Workloads	2018	VLDB	0.0001223506
3,881	Machine Learning and Databases: The Sound of Things to Come or a Cacophony of Hype?	2015	SIGMOD	6.6691196e-05
5,830	GEMINI: An Integrative Healthcare Analytics System	2014	VLDB	5.3113542e-05

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