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A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics

Summary: LA-focused benchmarks compare scalable linear-algebra systems (MADlib, MLlib, SystemML, ScaLAPACK, SciDB, TensorFlow) on real and synthetic data. Reveals bottlenecks, unusual performance trends, and bugs; guides improvements and provides open code/data for replication. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h93f49971c744c46e
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
7.236638e-05
Overall Rank
3,518 | 76.36%
DOI
10.14778/3275366.3275367
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BibTeX Citation

@article{thomas_vldb18,
        title = {{A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics}},
        author = {Thomas, Anthony and Kumar, Arun},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {13},
        pages = {2168--2182},
        doi = {10.14778/3275366.3275367},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3275366.3275367},
        year = {2018}
}

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78 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036675568
105 The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL 2012 VLDB 0.00033633007
248 Overview of SciDB: Large Scale Array Storage, Processing and Analysis 2010 SIGMOD 0.00023179865
416 SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark 2016 VLDB 0.00018650998
537 MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System 2013 CIDR 0.00016762761
731 Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data 2015 SIGMOD 0.00014400356
940 Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics 2011 CIDR 0.00012959992
1,009 Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL 2013 SIGMOD 0.0001253551
1,082 Hybrid Parallelization Strategies for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML 2014 VLDB 0.00012118261
1,257 Towards Linear Algebra over Normalized Data 2017 VLDB 0.0001130959
3,008 GenBase: A Complex Analytics Genomics Benchmark 2014 SIGMOD 7.757408e-05
3,585 A Comparison of Platforms for Implementing and Running Very Large Scale Machine Learning Algorithms 2014 SIGMOD 7.187207e-05
3,687 The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service 2017 CIDR 7.0954736e-05
4,309 Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads 2017 VLDB 6.6703601e-05
6,403 Profiling R on a Contemporary Processor 2015 VLDB 5.7950827e-05
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