Machine Learning and Databases: The Sound of Things to Come or a Cacophony of Hype?
Summary: Examines ML–DB frontier, outlining concrete opportunities for data management, learned query processing, and ML integration, and assesses substance versus hype. Discusses pitfalls, hype risks, and guidance for database researchers pursuing ML. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Christopher Ré (Stanford University)
- 2. Divy Agrawal (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- 3. Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
- 4. Michael Cafarella (University of Michigan)
- 5. Michael Jordan (University of California Berkeley)
- 6. Tim Kraska (Brown University)
- 7. Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{re_sigmod15,
title = {{Machine Learning and Databases: The Sound of Things to Come or a Cacophony of Hype?}},
author = {Ré, Christopher and Agrawal, Divy and Balazinska, Magdalena and Cafarella, Michael and Jordan, Michael and Kraska, Tim and Ramakrishnan, Raghu},
series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2723372.2742911},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2742911},
year = {2015}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 536 | Learning Linear Regression Models over Factorized Joins | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.0001693369 |
| 2,347 | Vertica-ML: Distributed Machine Learning in Vertica Database | 2020 | SIGMOD | 8.7157552e-05 |
| 2,847 | AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics | 2018 | VLDB | 8.0583142e-05 |
| 2,888 | AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.9941489e-05 |
| 4,118 | Rafiki: Machine Learning as an Analytics Service System | 2019 | VLDB | 6.8908973e-05 |
| 5,340 | Machine Learning for Databases | 2021 | VLDB | 6.2603359e-05 |
| 8,221 | NeurDB: On the Design and Implementation of an AI-powered Autonomous Database | 2025 | CIDR | 5.4640314e-05 |
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