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A Comparison of Platforms for Implementing and Running Very Large Scale Machine Learning Algorithms

Summary: A comparative benchmark of four platforms for large-scale ML inference across five hierarchical-model tasks. Uses 70,000 EC2 hours to compare runtimes, tuning, and programming effort, highlighting data-management tradeoffs for DB researchers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h36b71390a6ed1c60
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
7.1889578e-05
Overall Rank
3,586 | 75.90%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2593680

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cai_sigmod14,
        title = {{A Comparison of Platforms for Implementing and Running Very Large Scale Machine Learning Algorithms}},
        author = {Cai, Zhuhua and Gao, Zekai J. and Luo, Shangyu and Perez, Luis L. and Vagena, Zografoula and Jermaine, Christopher},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2593680},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2593680},
        year = {2014}
}

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394 One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale 2015 VLDB 0.00019191286
521 Learning Linear Regression Models over Factorized Joins 2016 SIGMOD 0.00016929744
1,255 Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011325762
1,256 Towards Linear Algebra over Normalized Data 2017 VLDB 0.00011314687
3,518 A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics 2018 VLDB 7.2400627e-05
6,144 The BUDS Language for Distributed Bayesian Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 5.8717563e-05
9,748 PlinyCompute: A Platform for High-Performance, Distributed, Data-Intensive Tool Development 2018 SIGMOD 5.1349531e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3 Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing 2010 SIGMOD 0.0012092602
6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.001052036
105 The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL 2012 VLDB 0.00033638251
537 MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System 2013 CIDR 0.00016768109
1,009 Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012539827
1,371 Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop 2010 SIGMOD 0.00010899041
2,003 SQLEM: Fast Clustering in SQL using the EM Algorithm 2000 SIGMOD 9.208656e-05
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