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A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics

Summary: LA-focused benchmarks compare scalable linear-algebra systems (MADlib, MLlib, SystemML, ScaLAPACK, SciDB, TensorFlow) on real and synthetic data. Reveals bottlenecks, unusual performance trends, and bugs; guides improvements and provides open code/data for replication. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11917
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
7.3953716e-05
Overall Rank
3,459 | 76.27%
DOI
10.14778/3275366.3275367

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BibTeX Citation

@article{thomas_vldb18,
        title = {{A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics}},
        author = {Thomas, Anthony and Kumar, Arun},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {13},
        pages = {2168--2182},
        doi = {10.14778/3275366.3275367},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3275366.3275367},
        year = {2018}
}

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86 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00035316107
106 The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL 2012 VLDB 0.00033539462
239 Overview of SciDB: Large Scale Array Storage, Processing and Analysis 2010 SIGMOD 0.00023674329
415 SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark 2016 VLDB 0.0001888524
532 MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System 2013 CIDR 0.00017072641
715 Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data 2015 SIGMOD 0.00014655327
923 Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics 2011 CIDR 0.00013189886
993 Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012789598
1,079 Hybrid Parallelization Strategies for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML 2014 VLDB 0.00012258469
1,235 Towards Linear Algebra over Normalized Data 2017 VLDB 0.00011548457
2,949 GenBase: A Complex Analytics Genomics Benchmark 2014 SIGMOD 7.9281519e-05
3,543 A Comparison of Platforms for Implementing and Running Very Large Scale Machine Learning Algorithms 2014 SIGMOD 7.3268101e-05
3,618 The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service 2017 CIDR 7.2523695e-05
4,224 Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads 2017 VLDB 6.8214304e-05
6,276 Profiling R on a Contemporary Processor 2015 VLDB 5.9291284e-05
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