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: 5974
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 8.8474951e-05
Overall Rank: 2,420 | 83.19%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389758

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2,553	Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud	2021	VLDB	8.5522099e-05
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4,681	Cloud Analytics Benchmark	2023	VLDB	5.9953512e-05
4,803	Boxer: Data Analytics on Network-enabled Serverless Platforms	2021	CIDR	5.906363e-05
4,831	Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions	2024	SIGMOD	5.8883791e-05
4,873	Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics	2023	VLDB	5.8557568e-05
5,446	Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics	2023	SIGMOD	5.4986799e-05
5,649	Optimizing Data-intensive Systems in Disaggregated Data Centers with TELEPORT	2022	SIGMOD	5.3897976e-05
7,063	CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs	2022	CIDR	4.8397918e-05
7,264	Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving	2022	SIGMOD	4.7781264e-05
7,787	Cost-Intelligent Data Analytics in the Cloud	2024	CIDR	4.6468106e-05
8,098	Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms	2021	VLDB	4.5824106e-05
8,099	GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation	2024	VLDB	4.58218e-05
8,357	Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools	2023	SIGMOD	4.5325029e-05
8,988	Optimizing Inference Serving on Serverless Platforms	2022	VLDB	4.4123773e-05
9,526	Cost-efficiency and Performance Robustness in Serverless Data Exchange	2022	SIGMOD	4.3268664e-05
9,762	Adaptive data transformations for QaaS	2025	CIDR	4.2815042e-05
9,972	End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure	2026	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
10,349	Efficient Approximate Query Processing with Block Sampling	2025	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
10,501	Intra-Query Runtime Elasticity for Cloud-Native Data Analysis	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,670	ArrayMorph: Optimizing Hyperslab Queries on the Cloud for Machine Learning Pipelines	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,721	Towards Designing Future-Proof Data Processing Systems	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,856	CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,893	Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless	2024	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
11,157	Templating Shuffles	2023	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
11,391	CDI-E: An Elastic Cloud Service for Data Engineering	2022	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,491	Toto - Benchmarking the Efficiency of a Cloud Service	2021	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
113	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.0004673401
920	Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	2019	CIDR	0.0001526483
980	Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture	2013	VLDB	0.00014868633
1,397	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012208385
1,468	Adaptive Range Filters for Cold Data: Avoiding Trips to Siberia	2013	VLDB	0.00011831457
1,540	NUMA-aware algorithms: the case of data shuffling	2013	CIDR	0.00011451745
2,075	Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database	2014	VLDB	9.6115775e-05
6,663	Cheap Data Analytics using Cold Storage Devices	2016	VLDB	4.9660535e-05

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