Tensors: An abstraction for general data processing

Summary: Tensor Computation Runtimes (TCRs) extend DL tensor abstractions to data processing, enabling graph and relational workloads. Mapping these problems to tensor form via Hummingbird yields competitive performance with less development effort and portability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12552
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 7.0561161e-05
Overall Rank: 3,874 | 73.43%
DOI: 10.14778/3467861.3467869

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Dimitrios Koutsoukos (ETH Zurich)
2. Supun Nakandala (University of California San Diego)
3. Konstantinos Karanasos (Microsoft)
4. Karla Saur (Microsoft)
5. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
6. Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{koutsoukos_vldb21,
        title = {{Tensors: An abstraction for general data processing}},
        author = {Koutsoukos, Dimitrios and Nakandala, Supun and Karanasos, Konstantinos and Saur, Karla and Alonso, Gustavo and Interlandi, Matteo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1797--1804},
        doi = {10.14778/3467861.3467869},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3467861.3467869},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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2,823	Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes	2022	VLDB	8.0893814e-05
2,865	End-to-end Optimization of Machine Learning Prediction Queries	2022	SIGMOD	8.0180243e-05
5,953	The Tensor Data Platform: Towards an AI-centric Database System	2023	CIDR	6.0309873e-05
6,614	Mitigating the Impedance Mismatch between Prediction Query Execution and Database Engine	2025	SIGMOD	5.8216658e-05
6,708	Serving Deep Learning Models with Deduplication from Relational Databases	2022	VLDB	5.7964983e-05
7,160	DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines	2022	CIDR	5.6855887e-05
7,746	WindTunnel: Towards Differentiable ML Pipelines Beyond a Single Model	2022	VLDB	5.5531058e-05
7,959	Terabyte-Scale Analytics in the Blink of an Eye	2026	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
7,961	Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2021	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
8,230	TOD: GPU-accelerated Outlier Detection via Tensor Operations	2023	VLDB	5.4619615e-05
8,513	Galley: Modern Query Optimization for Sparse Tensor Programs	2025	SIGMOD	5.4119882e-05
8,873	TGraph: A Tensor-centric Graph Processing Framework	2025	SIGMOD	5.3539725e-05
9,835	Share the Tensor Tea: How Databases can Leverage the Machine Learning Ecosystem	2022	VLDB	5.2112879e-05
9,880	MEMO: Fine-grained Tensor Management For Ultra-long Context LLM Training	2025	SIGMOD	5.2040783e-05
10,060	TenGraph: A Tensor-Based Graph Query Engine	2024	VLDB	5.166346e-05
10,119	Data Movement-Aware GPU Sharing for Data-Intensive Systems	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,130	Does A Fish Need a Bicycle? The Case for On-Chip NPUs in DBMS	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,230	Eliminating Redundant Feature Tests in Decision Tree and Random Forest Inference on SQL Predicates	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,425	Accelerating Triangle-Connected Truss Community Search Across Heterogeneous Hardware	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,541	Scalable GPU Acceleration of Scalar Functions in Analytical Databases: Compilation, Benchmarking, and Optimization	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.0006312782
23	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00054886415
24	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00054865648
252	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00023242719
649	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask	2018	VLDB	0.00015320656
912	Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores	2013	VLDB	0.00013269804
1,466	A Study of the Fundamental Performance Characteristics of GPUs and CPUs for Database Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001068941
1,469	Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware	2016	VLDB	0.00010678751
2,293	Extending Relational Query Processing with ML Inference	2020	CIDR	8.7949378e-05
2,594	Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark	2016	SIGMOD	8.3646367e-05
2,926	Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores	2017	VLDB	7.9549783e-05
4,976	SPORES: Sum-Product Optimization via Relational Equality Saturation for Large Scale Linear Algebra	2020	VLDB	6.4168322e-05

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