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Declarative Recursive Computation on an RDBMS or, Why You Should Use a Database For Distributed Machine Learning

Summary: Extends an RDBMS with recursion and large-plan optimization to declaratively execute distributed ML. Unlike TensorFlow-style systems, it naturally supports bulk-synchronous model parallelism, scaling models too large to fit in a single machine’s memory. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
hc97fed9f3b3786fc
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
8.5213814e-05
Overall Rank
2,400 | 83.87%
DOI
10.14778/3317315.3317323

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{jankov_vldb19,
        title = {{Declarative Recursive Computation on an RDBMS or, Why You Should Use a Database For Distributed Machine Learning}},
        author = {Jankov, Dimitrije and Luo, Shangyu and Yuan, Binhang and Cai, Zhuhua and Zou, Jia and Jermaine, Chris and Gao, Zekai J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {822--835},
        doi = {10.14778/3317315.3317323},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3317315.3317323},
        year = {2019}
}

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2,386 Vertica-ML: Distributed Machine Learning in Vertica Database 2020 SIGMOD 8.538263e-05
2,460 Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes 2022 VLDB 8.4348335e-05
2,598 Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0 2020 SIGMOD 8.2385793e-05
3,194 One WITH RECURSIVE is Worth Many GOTOs 2021 SIGMOD 7.5498012e-05
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5,289 Tensor Relational Algebra for Distributed Machine Learning System Design 2021 VLDB 6.1940481e-05
5,776 The Tensor Data Platform: Towards an AI-centric Database System 2023 CIDR 5.9981216e-05
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9,724 Database as Runtime: Compiling LLMs to SQL for In-database Model Serving 2025 SIGMOD 5.1349531e-05
10,021 Distributed Numerical and Machine Learning Computations via Two-Phase Execution of Aggregated Join Trees 2021 VLDB 5.0943545e-05
10,505 Variational Inference for De Finetti Logic 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,602 TranSQL+: Serving Large Language Models with SQL on Low-Resource Hardware 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,653 InferF: Declarative Factorization of AI/ML Inferences over Joins 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,699 Automated Tensor-Relational Decomposition for Large-Scale Sparse Tensor Computation 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,532 StarfishDB: a Query Execution Engine for Relational Probabilistic Programming 2024 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
23 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 0.00055406774
149 Efficient Mid-Query Re-Optimization of Sub-Optimal Query Execution Plans 1998 SIGMOD 0.00028981723
228 Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023920439
272 An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems 1998 PODS 0.00022509573
464 An Architecture for Parallel Topic Models 2010 VLDB 0.00017791851
1,009 Simulation of Database-Valued Markov Chains Using SimSQL 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012539827
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