Cloud-native database systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and challenges

F Li - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Cloud-native databases become increasingly important for the era of cloud computing, due
to the needs for elasticity and on-demand usage by various applications. These challenges …

ALEX: an updatable adaptive learned index

J Ding, UF Minhas, J Yu, C Wang, J Do, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Recent work on" learned indexes" has changed the way we look at the decades-old field of
DBMS indexing. The key idea is that indexes can be thought of as" models" that predict the …

Learning multi-dimensional indexes

V Nathan, J Ding, M Alizadeh, T Kraska - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Scanning and filtering over multi-dimensional tables are key operations in modern analytical
database engines. To optimize the performance of these operations, databases often create …

Learning to optimize join queries with deep reinforcement learning

S Krishnan, Z Yang, K Goldberg, J Hellerstein… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Exhaustive enumeration of all possible join orders is often avoided, and most optimizers
leverage heuristics to prune the search space. The design and implementation of heuristics …

Flaml: A fast and lightweight automl library

C Wang, Q Wu, M Weimer… - Proceedings of Machine …, 2021 - proceedings.mlsys.org
We study the problem of using low computational cost to automate the choices of learners
and hyperparameters for an ad-hoc training dataset and error metric, by conducting trials of …

Energy-efficient database systems: A systematic survey

B Guo, J Yu, D Yang, H Leng, B Liao - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Constructing energy-efficient database systems to reduce economic costs and
environmental impact has been studied for 10 years. With the emergence of the big data …

Tsunami: A learned multi-dimensional index for correlated data and skewed workloads

J Ding, V Nathan, M Alizadeh, T Kraska - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.13282, 2020 - arxiv.org
Filtering data based on predicates is one of the most fundamental operations for any modern
data warehouse. Techniques to accelerate the execution of filter expressions include …

AI meets database: AI4DB and DB4AI

G Li, X Zhou, L Cao - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Database and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can benefit from each other. On one hand, AI can
make database more intelligent (AI4DB). For example, traditional empirical database …

Distream: scaling live video analytics with workload-adaptive distributed edge intelligence

X Zeng, B Fang, H Shen, M Zhang - Proceedings of the 18th Conference …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Video cameras have been deployed at scale today. Driven by the breakthrough in deep
learning (DL), organizations that have deployed these cameras start to use DL-based …

Database meets artificial intelligence: A survey

X Zhou, C Chai, G Li, J Sun - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Database and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can benefit from each other. On one hand, AI can
make database more intelligent (AI4DB). For example, traditional empirical database …