A Relational Matrix Algebra and its Implementation in a Column Store

Summary: Relational Matrix Algebra (RMA) unifies linear algebra with the relational model at the logical level; all ops are closed on relations, no new data structures required. MonetDB implementation validates feasibility; experiments show competitive in-database analytics for mixed workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h87ebe8c35f54eeaa
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 5.7243855e-05
Overall Rank: 6,634 | 55.42%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389747

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Authors

1. Oksana Dolmatova (University of Zurich)
2. Nikolaus Augsten (University of Salzburg)
3. Michael H. Böhlen (University of Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dolmatova_sigmod20,
        title = {{A Relational Matrix Algebra and its Implementation in a Column Store}},
        author = {Dolmatova, Oksana and Augsten, Nikolaus and Böhlen, Michael H.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389747},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389747},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,974	TCUDB: Accelerating Database with Tensor Processors	2022	SIGMOD	6.8848857e-05
5,292	Tensor Relational Algebra for Distributed Machine Learning System Design	2021	VLDB	6.1911633e-05
6,844	Serving Deep Learning Models with Deduplication from Relational Databases	2022	VLDB	5.6647722e-05
11,876	Givens QR Decomposition over Relational Databases	2022	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
105	The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL	2012	VLDB	0.00033633007
208	EmptyHeaded: A Relational Engine for Graph Processing	2016	SIGMOD	0.00024899872
742	The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan	1998	SIGMOD	0.00014316764
1,009	Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL	2013	SIGMOD	0.0001253551
1,045	RIOT: I/O-Efficient Numerical Computing without SQL	2009	CIDR	0.00012327118
2,778	AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics	2018	VLDB	8.0261532e-05
4,522	SciQL: Array Data Processing Inside an RDBMS	2013	SIGMOD	6.5592919e-05
8,852	Building Statistical Models and Scoring with UDFs	2007	SIGMOD	5.2632106e-05

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