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Tensors: An abstraction for general data processing

Summary: Tensor Computation Runtimes (TCRs) extend DL tensor abstractions to data processing, enabling graph and relational workloads. Mapping these problems to tensor form via Hummingbird yields competitive performance with less development effort and portability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hebee633c7927bed7
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
6.9027109e-05
Overall Rank
3,953 | 73.43%
DOI
10.14778/3467861.3467869

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BibTeX Citation

@article{koutsoukos_vldb21,
        title = {{Tensors: An abstraction for general data processing}},
        author = {Koutsoukos, Dimitrios and Nakandala, Supun and Karanasos, Konstantinos and Saur, Karla and Alonso, Gustavo and Interlandi, Matteo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1797--1804},
        doi = {10.14778/3467861.3467869},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3467861.3467869},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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2,460 Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes 2022 VLDB 8.4348335e-05
2,662 End-to-end Optimization of Machine Learning Prediction Queries 2022 SIGMOD 8.1596229e-05
5,776 The Tensor Data Platform: Towards an AI-centric Database System 2023 CIDR 5.9981216e-05
5,991 Terabyte-Scale Analytics in the Blink of an Eye 2026 VLDB 5.9247663e-05
6,742 Mitigating the Impedance Mismatch between Prediction Query Execution and Database Engine 2025 SIGMOD 5.6910432e-05
6,844 Serving Deep Learning Models with Deduplication from Relational Databases 2022 VLDB 5.6664512e-05
6,878 DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines 2022 CIDR 5.657878e-05
7,868 WindTunnel: Towards Differentiable ML Pipelines Beyond a Single Model 2022 VLDB 5.4365239e-05
8,088 Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future 2021 VLDB 5.3942942e-05
8,400 TOD: GPU-accelerated Outlier Detection via Tensor Operations 2023 VLDB 5.3395906e-05
8,682 Galley: Modern Query Optimization for Sparse Tensor Programs 2025 SIGMOD 5.2905577e-05
9,032 TGraph: A Tensor-centric Graph Processing Framework 2025 SIGMOD 5.2338437e-05
10,020 Share the Tensor Tea: How Databases can Leverage the Machine Learning Ecosystem 2022 VLDB 5.0943606e-05
10,042 MEMO: Fine-grained Tensor Management For Ultra-long Context LLM Training 2025 SIGMOD 5.0921006e-05
10,143 Does A Fish Need a Bicycle? The Case for On-Chip NPUs in DBMS 2026 CIDR 5.0715586e-05
10,251 TenGraph: A Tensor-Based Graph Query Engine 2024 VLDB 5.0513876e-05
10,345 Data Movement-Aware GPU Sharing for Data-Intensive Systems 2026 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
10,446 Eliminating Redundant Feature Tests in Decision Tree and Random Forest Inference on SQL Predicates 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,614 Accelerating Triangle-Connected Truss Community Search Across Heterogeneous Hardware 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,723 Scalable GPU Acceleration of Scalar Functions in Analytical Databases: Compilation, Benchmarking, and Optimization 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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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
14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00064031282
21 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00056855599
23 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 0.00055406774
251 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00023143736
605 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask 2018 VLDB 0.00015647561
856 Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores 2013 VLDB 0.00013428547
1,268 A Study of the Fundamental Performance Characteristics of GPUs and CPUs for Database Analytics 2020 SIGMOD 0.0001126007
1,473 Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware 2016 VLDB 0.00010557973
2,182 Extending Relational Query Processing with ML Inference 2020 CIDR 8.8982998e-05
2,635 Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark 2016 SIGMOD 8.1965216e-05
2,802 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.9903139e-05
4,974 SPORES: Sum-Product Optimization via Relational Equality Saturation for Large Scale Linear Algebra 2020 VLDB 6.3318399e-05
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