Rafiki: Machine Learning as an Analytics Service System

Summary: Rafiki provides ML as an analytics service, decoupling training and inference from DB engines. It enables distributed hyper-parameter tuning for training and online ensemble inference to balance latency and accuracy. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hac8fd8c63dac1632
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 6.7519862e-05
Overall Rank: 4,182 | 71.90%
DOI: 10.14778/3282495.3282499
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Wei Wang (National University of Singapore)
2. Jinyang Gao (National University of Singapore)
3. Meihui Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology)
4. Sheng Wang (National University of Singapore)
5. Gang Chen (Zhejiang University)
6. Teck Khim Ng (National University of Singapore)
7. Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore)
8. Jie Shao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
9. Moaz Reyad (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb19,
        title = {{Rafiki: Machine Learning as an Analytics Service System}},
        author = {Wang, Wei and Gao, Jinyang and Zhang, Meihui and Wang, Sheng and Chen, Gang and Ng, Teck Khim and Ooi, Beng Chin and Shao, Jie and Reyad, Moaz},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {2},
        pages = {128--140},
        doi = {10.14778/3282495.3282499},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3282495.3282499},
        year = {2019}
}

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4,097	Distributed Deep Learning on Data Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches	2021	VLDB	6.8064316e-05
6,844	Serving Deep Learning Models with Deduplication from Relational Databases	2022	VLDB	5.6647722e-05
7,246	Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving	2022	SIGMOD	5.5736545e-05
7,620	The Machine Learning Bazaar: Harnessing the ML Ecosystem for Effective System Development	2020	SIGMOD	5.4813347e-05
7,983	Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines	2024	VLDB	5.4111208e-05
8,283	Hyper-Tune: Towards Efficient Hyper-parameter Tuning at Scale	2022	VLDB	5.3613692e-05
9,222	Powering In-Database Dynamic Model Slicing for Structured Data Analytics	2024	VLDB	5.203586e-05
9,661	FEAST: A Communication-efficient Federated Feature Selection Framework for Relational Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.142891e-05
11,078	KEN: An Execution Engine for Unstructured Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,243	A Systematic Study on Early Stopping Metrics in HPO and the Implications of Uncertainty	2025	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,555	Database Native Model Selection: Harnessing Deep Neural Networks in Database Systems	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,044	Quality of Sentiment Analysis Tools: The Reasons of Inconsistency	2021	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
271	NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale	2017	VLDB	0.0002256866
641	Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud	2011	CIDR	0.00015248402
2,040	Ease.ml: Towards Multi-tenant Resource Sharing for Machine Learning Workloads	2018	VLDB	9.1477132e-05
3,718	Machine Learning and Databases: The Sound of Things to Come or a Cacophony of Hype?	2015	SIGMOD	7.0703796e-05
6,263	GEMINI: An Integrative Healthcare Analytics System	2014	VLDB	5.8301898e-05

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