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User-Defined Operators: Efficiently Integrating Custom Algorithms into Modern Databases

Summary: Introduces User-Defined Operators (UDOs) to tightly integrate custom algorithms into modern database query engines. Idiomatic code in common languages is plugged directly, avoiding data export, preserving ACID guarantees, and achieving performance competitive with specialized analytics tools. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hbbc1a05929572b5f
Venue
VLDB
Year
2022
Pagerank
7.1416697e-05
Overall Rank
3,642 | 75.52%
DOI
10.14778/3510397.3510408

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BibTeX Citation

@article{sichert_vldb22,
        title = {{User-Defined Operators: Efficiently Integrating Custom Algorithms into Modern Databases}},
        author = {Sichert, Moritz and Neumann, Thomas},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {5},
        pages = {1119--1131},
        doi = {10.14778/3510397.3510408},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3510397.3510408},
        year = {2022}
}

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21 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00056855599
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373 Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance 2020 CIDR 0.00019711632
1,285 SQL/MapReduce: A practical approach to self-describing, polymorphic, and parallelizable user-defined functions 2009 VLDB 0.00011201377
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2,249 Evaluating End-to-End Optimization for Data Analytics Applications in Weld 2018 VLDB 8.7549752e-05
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4,095 Distributed Deep Learning on Data Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches 2021 VLDB 6.8095767e-05
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