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Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions

Summary: Vexless is a serverless vector DB built on cloud functions, targeting bursty/sparse ANN workloads with low cost and elastic scaling. Key ideas: orchestrator-based sharding, stateful functions to avoid sync communication, and workload-aware lifetime management to hide cold starts. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on May 24 2026)

Paper ID
h907e8f9f78bbde56
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2024
Pagerank
7.5325527e-05
Overall Rank
3,193 | 78.60%
DOI
10.1145/3654990

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{su_sigmod24,
        title = {{Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions}},
        author = {Su, Yongye and Sun, Yinqi and Zhang, Minjia and Wang, Jianguo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3654990},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654990},
        year = {2024}
}

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1,797 SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore 2024 VLDB 9.6056634e-05
2,836 Practical and Asymptotically Optimal Quantization of High-Dimensional Vectors in Euclidean Space for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 7.9410774e-05
3,389 SymphonyQG: Towards Symphonious Integration of Quantization and Graph for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 7.329962e-05
5,633 A Topology-Aware Localized Update Strategy for Graph-Based ANN Index 2026 VLDB 6.039647e-05
7,610 Scalable Graph Indexing using GPUs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.4683985e-05
9,562 SAQ: Pushing the Limits of Vector Quantization through Code Adjustment and Dimension Segmentation 2026 SIGMOD 5.1465543e-05
10,203 GPS: Revisiting the Data Layout for Disk-based High-Dimensional Vector Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.0491152e-05
10,261 CoTra: Towards Efficient and Scalable Distributed Vector Search with RDMA 2026 SIGMOD 5.0380426e-05
10,393 EASE: Resource-aware Query Scheduling across Heterogeneous Cloud Compute Services 2027 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,528 FaaSBoard: Efficient Graph Processing with a Disaggregated Architecture on Serverless Services 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,533 FastGNAS: Accelerating and Scaling Graph Neural Architecture Search on Multi-GPUs via Ring-Based Model Migration 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,616 Accelerating High-Dimensional ANN Search via Skipping Redundant Distance Computations 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,626 Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,680 MorphingDB: A Task-Centric AI-Native DBMS for Model Management and Inference 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,709 Efficient Vector Index Merging in Vector Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,840 Harmonizing Efficiency and Accuracy in Filtered Vector Search 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,406 Federated and Balanced Clustering for High-dimensional Data 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
20 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00057610161
75 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00037163157
181 Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System 2021 SIGMOD 0.00026425782
281 Multi-Probe LSH: Efficient Indexing for High-Dimensional Similarity Search 2007 VLDB 0.00022262975
325 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00020930941
837 Improving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search through Learned Adaptive Early Termination 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013530806
913 Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013084137
1,318 VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning 2020 VLDB 0.00011035606
1,716 Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure 2020 SIGMOD 9.7923765e-05
4,999 Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics 2023 SIGMOD 6.3086259e-05
5,106 Stateful Functions as a Service in Action 2019 VLDB 6.2605229e-05
7,248 Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving 2022 SIGMOD 5.5597893e-05
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