Containerized Execution of UDFs: An Experimental Evaluation

Summary: First study spanning containerized UDF life cycle, bottlenecks, and cross-engine extensibility for arbitrary-language UDFs. Binary-based communication cuts overhead (>2.4x vs text); Arrow Flight near-native speeds; start-up times 0.07–7s. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0a52275e1e6d1004
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.7926473e-05
Overall Rank: 6,415 | 56.87%
DOI: 10.14778/3551793.3551860

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Authors

1. Karla Saur (Microsoft)
2. Tara Mirmira (University of California San Diego)
3. Konstantinos Karanasos (Meta)
4. Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{saur_vldb22,
        title = {{Containerized Execution of UDFs: An Experimental Evaluation}},
        author = {Saur, Karla and Mirmira, Tara and Karanasos, Konstantinos and Camacho-Rodríguez, Jesús},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {11},
        pages = {3158--3171},
        doi = {10.14778/3551793.3551860},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3551793.3551860},
        year = {2022}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,978	Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines	2024	VLDB	5.4136835e-05
7,996	Databricks Lakeguard: Supporting Fine-grained Access Control and Multi-user Capabilities for Apache Spark Workloads	2025	SIGMOD	5.4108483e-05
8,352	Towards Building Autonomous Data Services on Azure	2023	SIGMOD	5.3488341e-05
10,250	AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets	2025	VLDB	5.051964e-05
10,932	IMLane: Composable Framework for Efficient AI Function Execution in Database Engine	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
459	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017856221
896	Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database	2018	VLDB	0.00013209291
1,441	Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service	2020	VLDB	0.00010641542
1,444	An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows	2015	VLDB	0.0001063181
1,803	Tuplex: Data Science in Python at Native Code Speed	2021	SIGMOD	9.6068397e-05
1,845	Data Market Platforms: Trading Data Assets to Solve Data Problems	2020	VLDB	9.5136397e-05
2,182	Extending Relational Query Processing with ML Inference	2020	CIDR	8.8982998e-05
2,195	Opening the Black Boxes in Data Flow Optimization	2012	VLDB	8.8781177e-05
2,662	End-to-end Optimization of Machine Learning Prediction Queries	2022	SIGMOD	8.1596229e-05
3,384	Putting Pandas in a Box	2021	CIDR	7.3550055e-05
5,230	Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries	2022	VLDB	6.2189001e-05
5,719	Accelerating Python UDFs in Vectorized Query Execution	2022	CIDR	6.0187779e-05

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