Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving
Summary: Comprehensive performance/cost evaluation of serverless model serving on AWS/GCP; serverless outperforms cloud-based options and GPU setups. Outlines a design space (platforms, runtimes, parameters) and offers guidance for serverless model serving. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yuncheng Wu
- 2. Tien Tuan Anh Dinh
- 3. Guoyu Hu
- 4. Meihui Zhang
- 5. Yeow Meng Chee
- 6. Beng Chin Ooi
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,831 | Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.8883791e-05 |
| 9,787 | The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.2799988e-05 |
| 10,893 | Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless | 2024 | CIDR | 4.1905499e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 920 | Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | 2019 | CIDR | 0.0001526483 |
| 1,324 | Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00012585081 |
| 1,634 | Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00011061792 |
| 2,420 | Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure | 2020 | SIGMOD | 8.8474951e-05 |
| 2,795 | Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training | 2021 | SIGMOD | 8.1135606e-05 |
| 4,745 | Rafiki: Machine Learning as an Analytics Service System | 2019 | VLDB | 5.9466323e-05 |
| 4,803 | Boxer: Data Analytics on Network-enabled Serverless Platforms | 2021 | CIDR | 5.906363e-05 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,185 | Stateful Functions as a Service in Action | 2019 | VLDB | 5.6358087e-05 |
| 4,966 | Releasing Cloud Databases from the Chains of Performance Prediction Models | 2017 | CIDR | 5.7949047e-05 |
| 11,575 | Serverless Query Processing on a Budget | 2020 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 2,420 | Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure | 2020 | SIGMOD | 8.8474951e-05 |
| 8,378 | Towards Building Autonomous Data Services on Azure | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.5275731e-05 |
| 9,526 | Cost-efficiency and Performance Robustness in Serverless Data Exchange | 2022 | SIGMOD | 4.3268664e-05 |
| 10,893 | Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless | 2024 | CIDR | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 8,988 | Optimizing Inference Serving on Serverless Platforms | 2022 | VLDB | 4.4123773e-05 |
| 920 | Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | 2019 | CIDR | 0.0001526483 |
| 2,795 | Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training | 2021 | SIGMOD | 8.1135606e-05 |