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The Case for Learned Index Structures

Summary: Indexes treated as models; learned indexes proposed as replacements for B-Tree, Hash, and Bitmap indexes. The paper analyzes theoretical conditions under which learned indexes outperform traditional ones and reports initial results, signaling ML-driven data management as a design paradigm. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h951df9242ad9178d
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00046284649
Overall Rank
40 | 99.74%
DOI
10.1145/3183713.3196909

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kraska_sigmod18,
        title = {{The Case for Learned Index Structures}},
        author = {Kraska, Tim and Beutel, Alex and Chi, Ed H. and Dean, Jeffrey and Polyzotis, Neoklis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3196909},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196909},
        year = {2018}
}

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3,697 Learned Index: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation 2023 VLDB 7.0882335e-05
3,703 Stable Learned Bloom Filters for Data Streams 2020 VLDB 7.0842566e-05
3,714 The Case for a Learned Sorting Algorithm 2020 SIGMOD 7.0769061e-05
3,803 CARMI: A Cache-Aware Learned Index with a Cost-based Construction Algorithm 2022 VLDB 7.0127652e-05
3,949 Deploying a Steered Query Optimizer in Production at Microsoft 2022 SIGMOD 6.9052796e-05
4,153 LeCo: Lightweight Compression via Learning Serial Correlations 2024 SIGMOD 6.776246e-05
4,197 Proteus: A Self-Designing Range Filter 2022 SIGMOD 6.7417716e-05
4,293 A Method for Optimizing Opaque Filter Queries 2020 SIGMOD 6.6819917e-05
4,375 DILI: A Distribution-Driven Learned Index 2023 VLDB 6.6292167e-05
4,457 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.5913732e-05
4,508 NFL: Robust Learned Index via Distribution Transformation 2022 VLDB 6.5704964e-05
4,538 One Model to Rule them All: Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases 2022 CIDR 6.553705e-05
4,563 Warper: Efficiently Adapting Learned Cardinality Estimators to Data and Workload Drifts 2022 SIGMOD 6.5320994e-05
4,616 The Price of Tailoring the Index to Your Data: Poisoning Attacks on Learned Index Structures 2022 SIGMOD 6.5000712e-05
4,625 Stacked Filters: Learning to Filter by Structure 2021 VLDB 6.4969374e-05
4,641 PLIN: A Persistent Learned Index for Non-Volatile Memory with High Performance and Instant Recovery 2023 VLDB 6.4899953e-05
4,721 Hist-Tree: Those Who Ignore It Are Doomed to Learn 2021 CIDR 6.4541703e-05
4,750 GRF: A Global Range Filter for LSM-Trees with Shape Encoding 2024 SIGMOD 6.4354422e-05
4,756 Cuckoo Index: A Lightweight Secondary Index Structure 2020 VLDB 6.43221e-05
4,781 Learned Approximate Query Processing: Make it Light, Accurate and Fast 2021 CIDR 6.4162085e-05
4,850 The RLR-Tree: A Reinforcement Learning Based R-Tree for Spatial Data 2023 SIGMOD 6.3808017e-05
4,875 Oasis: An Optimal Disjoint Segmented Learned Range Filter 2024 VLDB 6.3724016e-05
4,890 Can Learned Models Replace Hash Functions? 2023 VLDB 6.3682031e-05
5,003 COMPASS: Online Sketch-based Query Optimization for In-Memory Databases 2021 SIGMOD 6.3188773e-05
5,041 LSched: A Workload-Aware Learned Query Scheduler for Analytical Database Systems 2022 SIGMOD 6.3006152e-05
5,046 Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores 2022 SIGMOD 6.3000825e-05
5,081 InfiniFilter: Expanding Filters to Infinity and Beyond 2023 SIGMOD 6.2854372e-05
5,126 Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach 2020 SIGMOD 6.261175e-05
5,214 Stage: Query Execution Time Prediction in Amazon Redshift 2024 SIGMOD 6.2248104e-05
5,341 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 6.1730655e-05
5,496 Density-optimized Intersection-free Mapping and Matrix Multiplication for Join-Project Operations 2022 VLDB 6.1049663e-05
5,537 Updatable Learned Indexes Meet Disk-Resident DBMS - From Evaluations to Design Choices 2023 SIGMOD 6.0919359e-05
5,571 FILM: a Fully Learned Index for Larger-than-Memory Databases 2023 VLDB 6.080267e-05
5,674 HMAB: Self-Driving Hierarchy of Bandits for Integrated Physical Database Design Tuning 2023 VLDB 6.0430252e-05
5,716 Detect, Distill and Update: Learned DB Systems Facing Out of Distribution Data 2023 SIGMOD 6.0194657e-05
5,840 Pre-training Summarization Models of Structured Datasets for Cardinality Estimation 2022 VLDB 5.9737703e-05
5,871 PilotScope: Steering Databases with Machine Learning Drivers 2024 VLDB 5.9639223e-05
5,974 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 5.9305575e-05
6,080 From Auto-tuning One Size Fits All to Self-designed and Learned Data-intensive Systems 2019 SIGMOD 5.8924903e-05
6,105 Breaking It Down: An In-depth Study of Index Advisors 2024 VLDB 5.8860941e-05
6,124 Learning to Optimize LSM-trees: Towards A Reinforcement Learning based Key-Value Store for Dynamic Workloads 2023 SIGMOD 5.8788211e-05
6,174 Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge 2020 VLDB 5.8612829e-05
6,274 A Critical Analysis of Recursive Model Indexes 2022 VLDB 5.8271888e-05
6,416 A Unified Transferable Model for ML-Enhanced DBMS 2022 CIDR 5.7920805e-05
6,434 An Eight-Dimensional Systematic Evaluation of Optimized Search Algorithms on Modern Processors 2018 VLDB 5.7861149e-05
6,595 LMSFC: A Novel Multidimensional Index based on Learned Monotonic Space Filling Curves 2023 VLDB 5.7413481e-05
6,663 Range Search over Encrypted Multi-Attribute Data 2023 VLDB 5.7166181e-05
6,694 MOST: Model-Based Compression with Outlier Storage for Time Series Data 2023 SIGMOD 5.7068014e-05
6,719 Replicated Layout for In-Memory Database Systems 2022 VLDB 5.6985717e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

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34 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00049142315
59 Differential Files: Their Application To The Maintenance Of Large Data Bases 1976 SIGMOD 0.00039605949
69 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00037950385
216 Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing 1998 VLDB 0.00024485024
229 A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems 1986 VLDB 0.00023911856
282 FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs 2010 SIGMOD 0.00022264207
647 Building a Database on S3 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015208434
954 RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF 2008 VLDB 0.00012867202
971 Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012766019
1,117 Adaptive Range Filters for Cold Data: Avoiding Trips to Siberia 2013 VLDB 0.00011953704
1,283 A Seven-Dimensional Analysis of Hashing Methods and its Implications on Query Processing 2016 VLDB 0.00011209209
1,339 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010975458
1,444 An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows 2015 VLDB 0.0001063181
1,510 BF-Tree: Approximate Tree Indexing 2014 VLDB 0.00010438563
1,638 SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications 2009 CIDR 0.00010012154
3,375 A Hybrid B+-tree as Solution for In-Memory Indexing on CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Platforms 2016 SIGMOD 7.3608441e-05
3,597 Two Birds, One Stone: A Fast, yet Lightweight, Indexing Scheme for Modern Database Systems 2017 VLDB 7.1788912e-05
4,955 The Wavelet Trie: Maintaining an Indexed Sequence of Strings in Compressed Space 2012 PODS 6.3406617e-05
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