Towards Foundation Database Models

Summary: Argues for foundation database models: pre-trained, dataset- and task-agnostic models that enable low-overhead transfer to unseen datasets and replace expensive one-off per-task training. Proposes an architecture, shows a prototype feasibility study, and outlines a research roadmap. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 559
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.4371897e-05
Overall Rank: 8,847 | 38.46%
DOI: -

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9,729	Semantic Integrity Constraints: Declarative Guardrails for AI-Augmented Data Processing Systems	2025	VLDB	4.2942813e-05
9,993	Leveraging Query Optimizers to Verify the Soundness of LLM-based Query Rewrites for Real-World Workloads, and More!	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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102	The Case for Learned Index Structures	2018	SIGMOD	0.00049545203
204	Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning	2019	CIDR	0.00034784455
333	Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer	2019	VLDB	0.00027206884
513	TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning	2021	VLDB	0.00021288342
517	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00021169035
608	DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries!	2020	VLDB	0.00019235898
640	Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical	2021	SIGMOD	0.00018759152
806	An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator	2020	VLDB	0.00016434274
1,478	Learning Multi-dimensional Indexes	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011762542
1,889	Tsunami: A Learned Multi-dimensional Index for Correlated Data and Skewed Workloads	2021	VLDB	0.00010200865
3,076	Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases	2020	SIGMOD	7.6107677e-05
3,178	Why TPC Is Not Enough: An Analysis of the Amazon Redshift Fleet	2024	VLDB	7.4325992e-05
3,828	Zero-Shot Cost Models for Out-of-the-box Learned Cost Prediction	2022	VLDB	6.7208524e-05
6,368	Pre-training Summarization Models of Structured Datasets for Cardinality Estimation	2022	VLDB	5.0937722e-05
6,775	A Unified Transferable Model for ML-Enhanced DBMS	2022	CIDR	4.9299192e-05

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