Putting Pandas in a Box

Summary: Transpiles Pandas scripts into DBMS-executable SQL, pushing core DataFrame ops and external file access into the database. Automatically converts Python UDFs to SQL UDFs to run complex computations in-DB (e.g., model-join for scoring pre-trained ML models). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 406
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.9049746e-05
Overall Rank: 4,813 | 66.52%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,773	PolyFrame: A Retargetable Query-based Approach to Scaling Dataframes	2021	VLDB	5.9320139e-05
5,476	Containerized Execution of UDFs: An Experimental Evaluation	2022	VLDB	5.4866534e-05
5,731	Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries	2022	VLDB	5.3502065e-05
6,541	ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes	2022	VLDB	5.0216945e-05
6,701	YeSQL: “You extend SQL” with Rich and Highly Performant User-Defined Functions in Relational Databases	2022	VLDB	4.9561066e-05
8,583	Efficient Execution of User-Defined Functions in SQL Queries	2023	VLDB	4.4919445e-05
9,762	QURE: AI-Assisted and Automatically Verified UDF Inlining	2025	SIGMOD	4.2856106e-05
9,763	The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries	2025	VLDB	4.2856106e-05
10,471	Approximating Opaque Top-k Queries	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,076	RIOT: I/O-Efficient Numerical Computing without SQL	2009	CIDR	0.00014248449
2,934	AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.8595778e-05
9,416	When sweet and cute isn't enough anymore: Solving scalability issues in Python Pandas with Grizzly	2020	CIDR	4.3441378e-05

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