LLM for Data Management

Summary: Tutorial surveying use of LLMs to optimize data management, advocating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to curb hallucination, vector databases to cut latency, and LLM-agent multi-round pipelines for complex workflows. Focuses on applications (query rewrite, DB diagnosis, NL analytics), implementation trade-offs (cost, accuracy, latency), and open research challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hed6a1eaacfb222fd
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 6.2551644e-05
Overall Rank: 5,149 | 65.39%
DOI: 10.14778/3685800.3685838

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Authors

1. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
2. Xuanhe Zhou (Tsinghua University)
3. Xinyang Zhao (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb24,
        title = {{LLM for Data Management}},
        author = {Li, Guoliang and Zhou, Xuanhe and Zhao, Xinyang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {12},
        pages = {4213--4216},
        doi = {10.14778/3685800.3685838},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3685800.3685838},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,132	SQLStorm: Taking Database Benchmarking into the LLM Era	2025	VLDB	6.7885553e-05
4,229	Cracking SQL Barriers: An LLM-based Dialect Translation System	2025	SIGMOD	6.7165534e-05
4,385	R-Bot: An LLM-based Query Rewrite System	2025	VLDB	6.6235293e-05
9,158	Database Perspective on LLM Inference Systems	2025	VLDB	5.2164603e-05
9,536	SAP HANA Cloud: Data Management for Modern Enterprise Applications	2025	SIGMOD	5.1631101e-05
10,502	Skyline Retrieval meets Set-Cover Chunk Merging: A Cost-Effective RAG-Sketch for Long-Context LLM QA	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,878	Can we trust LLM Self-Explanations for Entity Resolution?	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,024	Bridging LLMs and Database Systems: A Deep Dive into Enhanced Relational Operators	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,034	Data Agents: Rethinking Data Systems in the AI Agent Era	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,303	LLMLog: Advanced Log Template Generation via LLM-driven Multi-Round Annotation	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,328	Evoschema: Towards Text-To-Sql Robustness Against Schema Evolution	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,250	DB-BERT: A Database Tuning Tool that "Reads the Manual"	2022	SIGMOD	0.00011339256
1,658	D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	9.9642078e-05
1,857	Diagnosing Root Causes of Intermittent Slow Queries in Cloud Databases	2020	VLDB	9.4929201e-05
1,893	WeTune: Automatic Discovery and Verification of Query Rewrite Rules	2022	SIGMOD	9.4126198e-05
1,991	RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation	2021	VLDB	9.2383849e-05
2,395	A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search	2022	VLDB	8.5281914e-05
3,336	GenRewrite: Query Rewriting via Large Language Models	2026	SIGMOD	7.4137763e-05
4,108	QueryBooster: Improving SQL Performance Using Middleware Services for Human-Centered Query Rewriting	2023	VLDB	6.8020689e-05
4,741	Machine Learning for Databases	2021	VLDB	6.4410027e-05

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