Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions

Summary: Vexless is a serverless vector DB built on cloud functions, targeting bursty/sparse ANN workloads with low cost and elastic scaling. Key ideas: orchestrator-based sharding, stateful functions to avoid sync communication, and workload-aware lifetime management to hide cold starts. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on May 24 2026)

Paper ID: 6950
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.8707776e-05
Overall Rank: 4,862 | 66.18%
DOI: 10.1145/3654990

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4,598	Practical and Asymptotically Optimal Quantization of High-Dimensional Vectors in Euclidean Space for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2025	SIGMOD	6.0586236e-05
5,184	SymphonyQG: Towards Symphonious Integration of Quantization and Graph for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2025	SIGMOD	5.6406991e-05
7,544	A Topology-Aware Localized Update Strategy for Graph-Based ANN Index	2026	VLDB	4.7149033e-05
9,880	CoTra: Towards Efficient and Scalable Distributed Vector Search with RDMA	2026	SIGMOD	4.2643674e-05
10,042	Accelerating High-Dimensional ANN Search via Skipping Redundant Distance Computations	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,058	Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,110	SAQ: Pushing the Limits of Vector Quantization through Code Adjustment and Dimension Segmentation	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,111	Scalable Graph Indexing using GPUs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,130	MorphingDB: A Task-Centric AI-Native DBMS for Model Management and Inference	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,160	Efficient Vector Index Merging in Vector Databases	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,716	Federated and Balanced Clustering for High-dimensional Data	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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34	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00076637636
212	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	0.00033913475
400	Multi-Probe LSH: Efficient Indexing for High-Dimensional Similarity Search	2007	VLDB	0.0002427237
495	Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System	2021	SIGMOD	0.00021767688
736	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.00017447617
1,326	Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012576952
1,364	Improving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search through Learned Adaptive Early Termination	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012370117
1,757	VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning	2020	VLDB	0.00010660932
2,424	Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure	2020	SIGMOD	8.8380822e-05
5,187	Stateful Functions as a Service in Action	2019	VLDB	5.6400706e-05
5,441	Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics	2023	SIGMOD	5.5028093e-05
7,269	Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving	2022	SIGMOD	4.7815303e-05

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