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AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI

Summary: Survey of AI4DB and DB4AI, unifying AI-augmented databases with DB-backed AI deployment. Covers learning-based DB configuration/optimization/design/monitoring/security (AI4DB) and AI-oriented declarative language, data governance, training/inference acceleration (DB4AI); highlights key challenges and directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h1d5bb98d0c86a7e6
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
7.8742664e-05
Overall Rank
2,908 | 80.45%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3457542

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{li_sigmod21,
        title = {{AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI}},
        author = {Li, Guoliang and Zhou, Xuanhe and Cao, Lei},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457542},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457542},
        year = {2021}
}

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2,522 Learned Cardinality Estimation: A Design Space Exploration and A Comparative Evaluation 2022 VLDB 8.3477168e-05
3,226 Opportunities for Quantum Acceleration of Databases: Optimization of Queries and Transaction Schedules 2023 VLDB 7.5095541e-05
3,682 openGauss: An Autonomous Database System 2021 VLDB 7.1013922e-05
3,697 Learned Index: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2023 VLDB 7.0882335e-05
3,741 FACE: A Normalizing Flow based Cardinality Estimator 2022 VLDB 7.0594076e-05
3,777 HTAP Databases: What is New and What is Next 2022 SIGMOD 7.0268163e-05
4,258 LEON: A New Framework for ML-Aided Query Optimization 2023 VLDB 6.6994722e-05
4,442 From BERT to GPT-3 Codex: Harnessing the Potential of Very Large Language Models for Data Management 2022 VLDB 6.5988336e-05
4,482 LearnedSQLGen: Constraint-aware SQL Generation using Reinforcement Learning 2022 SIGMOD 6.5802486e-05
4,741 Machine Learning for Databases 2021 VLDB 6.4410027e-05
5,871 PilotScope: Steering Databases with Machine Learning Drivers 2024 VLDB 5.9639223e-05
6,166 Apt-Serve: Adaptive Request Scheduling on Hybrid Cache for Scalable LLM Inference Serving 2025 SIGMOD 5.8631131e-05
6,632 Join Order Selection with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Challenges 2023 VLDB 5.7270153e-05
6,826 SIMPLE: Efficient Temporal Graph Neural Network Training at Scale with Dynamic Data Placement 2024 SIGMOD 5.6700316e-05
7,492 DBMind: A Self-Driving Platform in openGauss 2021 VLDB 5.510397e-05
8,047 Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities 2022 VLDB 5.4006048e-05
8,196 WISK: A Workload-aware Learned Index for Spatial Keyword Queries 2023 SIGMOD 5.3794981e-05
8,202 Grep: A Graph Learning Based Database Partitioning System 2023 SIGMOD 5.378708e-05
8,800 PACE: Poisoning Attacks on Learned Cardinality Estimation 2024 SIGMOD 5.2742531e-05
8,879 Spatial Query Optimization With Learning 2024 VLDB 5.2568354e-05
9,179 FEBench: A Benchmark for Real-Time Relational Data Feature Extraction 2023 VLDB 5.2121898e-05
9,563 LeaFi: Data Series Indexes on Steroids with Learned Filters 2025 SIGMOD 5.1571823e-05
9,720 APQO: An Adaptive Framework for Parametric Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 5.1349531e-05
10,143 Does A Fish Need a Bicycle? The Case for On-Chip NPUs in DBMS 2026 CIDR 5.0715586e-05
10,608 MorphingDB: A Task-Centric AI-Native DBMS for Model Management and Inference 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,237 FB+-tree: A Memory-Optimized B+-tree with Latch-Free Update 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,425 Learned Cost Models for Query Optimization: From Batch to Streaming Systems 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,618 Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,915 Machine Programming: Turning Data into Programmer Productivity 2022 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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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
40 The Case for Learned Index Structures 2018 SIGMOD 0.00046284649
78 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036684414
105 The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL 2012 VLDB 0.00033638251
145 Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer 2019 VLDB 0.0002908188
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024013745
314 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021282642
367 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00019884846
406 Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation 2020 VLDB 0.00019045544
415 SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark 2016 VLDB 0.0001865959
430 ALEX: An Updatable Adaptive Learned Index 2020 SIGMOD 0.00018409112
437 QTune: A Query-Aware Database Tuning System with Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00018315867
460 Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2018 SIGMOD 0.00017842695
461 An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator 2020 VLDB 0.00017829982
483 ActiveClean: Interactive Data Cleaning For Statistical Modeling 2016 VLDB 0.00017590977
509 Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets 2016 SIGMOD 0.00017071087
537 MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System 2013 CIDR 0.00016768109
555 SageDB: A Learned Database System 2019 CIDR 0.00016506678
560 Plan-Structured Deep Neural Network Models for Query Performance Prediction 2019 VLDB 0.00016403151
585 Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation 2011 SIGMOD 0.00015949541
654 Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads 2014 SIGMOD 0.0001510357
692 Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models 2019 VLDB 0.00014741011
777 To Join or Not to Join? Thinking Twice about Joins before Feature Selection 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014054709
868 Learning Multi-dimensional Indexes 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013354403
1,038 ARDA: Automatic Relational Data Augmentation for Machine Learning 2020 VLDB 0.00012370691
1,067 Automated Demand-driven Resource Scaling in Relational Database-as-a-Service 2016 SIGMOD 0.0001219157
1,156 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011777105
1,160 P-Store: An Elastic Database System with Predictive Provisioning 2018 SIGMOD 0.00011769228
1,255 Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011325762
1,397 Magic mirror in my hand, which is the best in the land? An Experimental Evaluation of Index Selection Algorithms 2020 VLDB 0.00010789242
1,433 Towards a Learning Optimizer for Shared Clouds 2019 VLDB 0.00010677711
1,603 SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010097649
1,699 Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 9.8445322e-05
1,857 Diagnosing Root Causes of Intermittent Slow Queries in Cloud Databases 2020 VLDB 9.4929201e-05
1,889 Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn 2019 CIDR 9.4273689e-05
2,275 Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems 2020 SIGMOD 8.7090584e-05
2,478 Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases 2020 SIGMOD 8.4079121e-05
2,842 Query Performance Prediction for Concurrent Queries using Graph Embedding 2020 VLDB 7.949193e-05
3,171 Truth Inference in Crowdsourcing: Is the Problem Solved? 2017 VLDB 7.5691557e-05
3,716 Machine Learning and Databases: The Sound of Things to Come or a Cacophony of Hype? 2015 SIGMOD 7.0726435e-05
3,737 In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics 2018 VLDB 7.0628666e-05
4,974 SPORES: Sum-Product Optimization via Relational Equality Saturation for Large Scale Linear Algebra 2020 VLDB 6.3318399e-05
5,967 Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems 2019 VLDB 5.9324372e-05
6,080 From Auto-tuning One Size Fits All to Self-designed and Learned Data-intensive Systems 2019 SIGMOD 5.8924903e-05
6,246 ColumnML: Column-Store Machine Learning with On-The-Fly Data Transformation 2019 VLDB 5.8370793e-05
6,397 Human-in-the-loop Data Integration 2017 VLDB 5.7989499e-05
8,847 Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data 2019 VLDB 5.2646682e-05
10,160 Thoth in Action: Memory Management in Modern Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 5.0688288e-05
10,161 Rheem: Enabling Multi-Platform Task Execution 2016 SIGMOD 5.0688288e-05
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