ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes

Summary: ConnectorX speeds loading from DBMSs to dataframes by reducing client-side overhead—the dominant cost—rather than query execution or data transfer. Server-side result partitioning and a modular design enable easy extension to multiple databases and dataframes, yielding speedups over prior libraries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12783
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.0168759e-05
Overall Rank: 6,539 | 54.56%
DOI: 10.14778/3551793.3551847

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10,177	InferF: Declarative Factorization of AI/ML Inferences over Joins	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,492	Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,599	Accio: Bolt-on Query Federation	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,811	Enter the Warp: Fast and Adaptive Data Transfer with XDBC	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039408116
1,283	Towards Linear Algebra over Normalized Data	2017	VLDB	0.00012826013
1,356	Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics	2021	CIDR	0.00012409986
1,427	Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems	2020	VLDB	0.00012033503
1,494	Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop	2010	SIGMOD	0.00011677793
2,060	Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale	2020	VLDB	9.6585115e-05
2,445	Data Management for Data Science: Towards Embedded Analytics	2020	CIDR	8.7999299e-05
2,809	Extending Relational Query Processing with ML Inference	2020	CIDR	8.0869552e-05
2,939	AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.8514162e-05
2,955	Magpie: Python at Speed and Scale using Cloud Backends	2021	CIDR	7.8188583e-05
3,122	DB4ML – An In-Memory Database Kernel with Machine Learning Support	2020	SIGMOD	7.5284233e-05
3,961	MLog: Towards Declarative In-Database Machine Learning	2017	VLDB	6.5824022e-05
4,416	Don't Hold My Data Hostage - A Case For Client Protocol Redesign	2017	VLDB	6.1963721e-05
4,813	Putting Pandas in a Box	2021	CIDR	5.8993009e-05
5,969	Bridging Two Worlds with RICE: Integrating R into the SAP In-Memory Computing Engine	2011	VLDB	5.2469372e-05
6,668	Mainlining Databases: Supporting Fast Transactional Workloads on Universal Columnar Data File Formats	2021	VLDB	4.9647176e-05

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