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: 7012
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 7.4796687e-05
Overall Rank: 3,364 | 76.93%
DOI: 10.1145/3654990

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Authors

1. Yongye Su (Purdue University)
2. Yinqi Sun (Purdue University)
3. Minjia Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
4. Jianguo Wang (Purdue University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{su_sigmod24,
        title = {{Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions}},
        author = {Su, Yongye and Sun, Yinqi and Zhang, Minjia and Wang, Jianguo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3654990},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654990},
        year = {2024}
}

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2,920	SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore	2024	VLDB	7.9628307e-05
3,108	Practical and Asymptotically Optimal Quantization of High-Dimensional Vectors in Euclidean Space for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2025	SIGMOD	7.7499741e-05
3,799	SymphonyQG: Towards Symphonious Integration of Quantization and Graph for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2025	SIGMOD	7.114484e-05
6,615	A Topology-Aware Localized Update Strategy for Graph-Based ANN Index	2026	VLDB	5.8214312e-05
9,889	SAQ: Pushing the Limits of Vector Quantization through Code Adjustment and Dimension Segmentation	2026	SIGMOD	5.1997534e-05
10,035	CoTra: Towards Efficient and Scalable Distributed Vector Search with RDMA	2026	SIGMOD	5.173224e-05
10,236	FaaSBoard: Efficient Graph Processing with a Disaggregated Architecture on Serverless Services	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,241	FastGNAS: Accelerating and Scaling Graph Neural Architecture Search on Multi-GPUs via Ring-Based Model Migration	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,251	GPS: Revisiting the Data Layout for Disk-based High-Dimensional Vector Search	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,336	Accelerating High-Dimensional ANN Search via Skipping Redundant Distance Computations	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,350	Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,400	Scalable Graph Indexing using GPUs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,418	MorphingDB: A Task-Centric AI-Native DBMS for Model Management and Inference	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,449	Efficient Vector Index Merging in Vector Databases	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,959	Federated and Balanced Clustering for High-dimensional Data	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
21	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00056760516
93	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	0.00034701237
286	Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System	2021	SIGMOD	0.00022357911
287	Multi-Probe LSH: Efficient Indexing for High-Dimensional Similarity Search	2007	VLDB	0.00022323585
406	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.00019054532
926	Improving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search through Learned Adaptive Early Termination	2020	SIGMOD	0.00013181732
939	Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions	2020	SIGMOD	0.00013083524
1,430	VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning	2020	VLDB	0.0001080902
1,784	Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure	2020	SIGMOD	9.7726335e-05
4,908	Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics	2023	SIGMOD	6.4488784e-05
4,974	Stateful Functions as a Service in Action	2019	VLDB	6.4178811e-05
7,114	Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving	2022	SIGMOD	5.6982359e-05

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