A Comparison of Platforms for Implementing and Running Very Large Scale Machine Learning Algorithms

Summary: A comparative benchmark of four platforms for large-scale ML inference across five hierarchical-model tasks. Uses 70,000 EC2 hours to compare runtimes, tuning, and programming effort, highlighting data-management tradeoffs for DB researchers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4872
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.3268101e-05
Overall Rank: 3,543 | 75.70%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2593680

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Zhuhua Cai (Rice University)
2. Zekai J. Gao (Rice University)
3. Shangyu Luo (Rice University)
4. Luis L. Perez (Rice University)
5. Zografoula Vagena (LogicBlox)
6. Christopher Jermaine (Rice University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cai_sigmod14,
        title = {{A Comparison of Platforms for Implementing and Running Very Large Scale Machine Learning Algorithms}},
        author = {Cai, Zhuhua and Gao, Zekai J. and Luo, Shangyu and Perez, Luis L. and Vagena, Zografoula and Jermaine, Christopher},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2593680},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2593680},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
389	One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale	2015	VLDB	0.00019386526
536	Learning Linear Regression Models over Factorized Joins	2016	SIGMOD	0.0001693369
1,235	Towards Linear Algebra over Normalized Data	2017	VLDB	0.00011548457
1,250	Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011485301
3,459	A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.3953716e-05
6,030	The BUDS Language for Distributed Bayesian Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	6.0009079e-05
9,572	PlinyCompute: A Platform for High-Performance, Distributed, Data-Intensive Tool Development	2018	SIGMOD	5.2528121e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3	Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing	2010	SIGMOD	0.0012250108
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0010686205
106	The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL	2012	VLDB	0.00033539462
532	MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System	2013	CIDR	0.00017072641
993	Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL	2013	SIGMOD	0.00012789598
1,333	Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop	2010	SIGMOD	0.0001112858
2,002	SQLEM: Fast Clustering in SQL using the EM Algorithm	2000	SIGMOD	9.3312236e-05

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