AlayaDB: The Data Foundation for Efficient and Effective Long-context LLM Inference

Summary: AlayaDB rearchitects LLM inference by decoupling KV cache and attention into a dedicated vector store. It models attention/cache as a query-processing task, with a native optimizer, delivering lower resource use and higher quality than previous approaches. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7091
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.3958197e-05
Overall Rank: 9,103 | 36.68%
DOI: 10.1145/3722212.3724428

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,222	RetroInfer: A Vector Storage Engine for Scalable Long-Context LLM Inference	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,711	Cracking Vector Search Indexes	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071838587
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040504295
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
212	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	0.00033913475
488	TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database	2020	VLDB	0.000220409
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
2,262	Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System	2022	VLDB	9.1624446e-05
2,523	ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data	2024	SIGMOD	8.604576e-05
2,691	Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	8.2909126e-05
3,680	SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore	2024	VLDB	6.8496415e-05
5,233	RoarGraph: A Projected Bipartite Graph for Efficient Cross-Modal Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2024	VLDB	5.6131833e-05
6,357	PQCache: Product Quantization-based KVCache for Long Context LLM Inference	2025	SIGMOD	5.0970739e-05

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