Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure

Summary: Lambada enables interactive analytics on cold data through a serverless distributed framework. Extensive experiments show when serverless is economically and performance-wise viable for analytics, highlighting domains where it outperforms traditional clouds. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5973
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 8.8380822e-05
Overall Rank: 2,424 | 83.14%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389758

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4,717	Cloud Analytics Benchmark	2023	VLDB	5.9751539e-05
4,800	Boxer: Data Analytics on Network-enabled Serverless Platforms	2021	CIDR	5.9117077e-05
4,862	Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions	2024	SIGMOD	5.8707776e-05
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7,889	Cost-Intelligent Data Analytics in the Cloud	2024	CIDR	4.6253386e-05
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8,095	GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation	2024	VLDB	4.5865778e-05
8,361	Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools	2023	SIGMOD	4.5368524e-05
8,982	Optimizing Inference Serving on Serverless Platforms	2022	VLDB	4.4166105e-05
9,525	Cost-efficiency and Performance Robustness in Serverless Data Exchange	2022	SIGMOD	4.3310169e-05
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9,973	End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
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10,662	ArrayMorph: Optimizing Hyperslab Queries on the Cloud for Machine Learning Pipelines	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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10,852	CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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11,154	Templating Shuffles	2023	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
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11,487	Toto - Benchmarking the Efficiency of a Cloud Service	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
113	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00046764513
924	Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	2019	CIDR	0.00015272958
982	Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture	2013	VLDB	0.00014872253
1,409	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012132768
1,471	Adaptive Range Filters for Cold Data: Avoiding Trips to Siberia	2013	VLDB	0.00011830111
1,543	NUMA-aware algorithms: the case of data shuffling	2013	CIDR	0.0001145318
2,076	Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database	2014	VLDB	9.6059442e-05
6,665	Cheap Data Analytics using Cold Storage Devices	2016	VLDB	4.9697181e-05

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