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most citedCloudy with high chance of DBMS: A 10-year prediction for Enterprise-Grade ML

21 citations · 95 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.DB2026

Guided Table Retrieval for Structured Data Search

Alekh Jindal, Jyoti Pandey, Christina Pavlopoulou +5

Answering natural language questions over structured databases requires identifying the relevant tables and determining how to join them---a task that demands both schema knowledge…

cs.DB2026

Reverse Migration of Cloud Applications to On-premises

Alekh Jindal, Jyoti Pandey, Christina Pavlopoulou +5

Cloud has become ubiquitous to modern applications due to its agility and scalability. However, regulated industries still prefer to deploy on-premises due to security and complian…

cs.DB2026

Generating Query Context for Relational Databases

Alekh Jindal, Jyoti Pandey, Christina Pavlopoulou +5

Relational databases are the systems of record for business applications, and there is growing demand to query them through natural language interfaces. A key challenge is that AI…

cs.DB2026

Tursio Database Search: How far are we from ChatGPT?

Sulbha Jain, Shivani Tripathi, Shi Qiao +1

Business users need to search enterprise databases using natural language, just as they now search the web using ChatGPT or Perplexity. However, existing benchmarks -- designed for…

cs.DB2026

Tursio for Credit Unions: Structured Data Search with Automated Context Graphs

Shivani Tripathi, Ravi Shetye, Shi Qiao +1

Extracting actionable insights from structured databases in regulated industries, such as credit unions, is often hindered by complex schemas, legacy systems, and stringent data go…

cs.DB2026

Scalable Join Inference for Large Context Graphs

Shivani Tripathi, Ravi Shetye, Shi Qiao +1

Context graphs are essential for modern AI applications including question answering, pattern discovery, and data analysis. Building accurate context graphs from structured databas…

cs.DB2026

Making Databases Searchable with Deep Context

Alekh Jindal, Shi Qiao, Shivani Tripathi +15

Databases are the most critical assets for enterprises, and yet they remain largely inaccessible to people who make the most important decisions. In this paper, we describe the Tur…

cs.DB2025

Prompt Migration: Stabilizing GenAI Applications with Evolving Large Language Models

Shivani Tripathi, Pushpanjali Nema, Aditya Halder +2

Generative AI is transforming business applications by enabling natural language interfaces and intelligent automation. However, the underlying large language models (LLMs) are evo…

cs.DB2025

Searching Clinical Data Using Generative AI

Karan Hanswadkar, Anika Kanchi, Shivani Tripathi +3

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making a major impact on healthcare, particularly through its application in natural language processing (NLP) and predictive analytics. The healthc…

cs.DB2024★ 12 cited

Sibyl: Forecasting Time-Evolving Query Workloads

Hanxian Huang, Tarique Siddiqui, Rana Alotaibi +6

Database systems often rely on historical query traces to perform workload-based performance tuning. However, real production workloads are time-evolving, making historical queries…

cs.DB2024★ 3 cited

GEqO: ML-Accelerated Semantic Equivalence Detection

Brandon Haynes, Rana Alotaibi, Anna Pavlenko +3

Large scale analytics engines have become a core dependency for modern data-driven enterprises to derive business insights and drive actions. These engines support a large number o…

cs.DB2022★ 20 cited

Deploying a Steered Query Optimizer in Production at Microsoft

Wangda Zhang, Matteo Interlandi, Paul Mineiro +6

Modern analytical workloads are highly heterogeneous and massively complex, making generic query optimizers untenable for many customers and scenarios. As a result, it is important…

cs.DB2021★ 2 cited

Predictive Price-Performance Optimization for Serverless Query Processing

Rathijit Sen, Abhishek Roy, Alekh Jindal

We present an efficient, parametric modeling framework for predictive resource allocations, focusing on the amount of computational resources, that can optimize for a range of pric…

cs.DB2021★ 7 cited

Phoebe: A Learning-based Checkpoint Optimizer

Yiwen Zhu, Matteo Interlandi, Abhishek Roy +5

Easy-to-use programming interfaces paired with cloud-scale processing engines have enabled big data system users to author arbitrarily complex analytical jobs over massive volumes…

cs.DB2021★ 11 cited

Optimal Resource Allocation for Serverless Queries

Anish Pimpley, Shuo Li, Anubha Srivastava +7

Optimizing resource allocation for analytical workloads is vital for reducing costs of cloud-data services. At the same time, it is incredibly hard for users to allocate resources…

cs.DC2020★ 3 cited

Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation

Olga Poppe, Tayo Amuneke, Dalitso Banda +23

Microsoft Azure is dedicated to guarantee high quality of service to its customers, in particular, during periods of high customer activity, while controlling cost. We employ a Dat…

cs.DB2020★ 4 cited

Cost Models for Big Data Query Processing: Learning, Retrofitting, and Our Findings

Tarique Siddiqui, Alekh Jindal, Shi Qiao +2

Query processing over big data is ubiquitous in modern clouds, where the system takes care of picking both the physical query execution plans and the resources needed to run those…

cs.DB2019★ 21 cited

Cloudy with high chance of DBMS: A 10-year prediction for Enterprise-Grade ML

Ashvin Agrawal, Rony Chatterjee, Carlo Curino +19

Machine learning (ML) has proven itself in high-value web applications such as search ranking and is emerging as a powerful tool in a much broader range of enterprise scenarios inc…

cs.DB2019★ 2 cited

Query and Resource Optimizations: A Case for Breaking the Wall in Big Data Systems

Alekh Jindal, Lalitha Viswanathan, Konstantinos Karanasos

Modern big data systems run on cloud environments where resources are shared amongst several users and applications. As a result, declarative user queries in these environments nee…

cs.DB2017★ 1 cited

INGESTBASE: A Declarative Data Ingestion System

Alekh Jindal, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Samuel Madden

Big data applications have fast arriving data that must be quickly ingested. At the same time, they have specific needs to preprocess and transform the data before it could be put…

cs.DB2014★ 6 cited

Graph Analytics using the Vertica Relational Database

Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden, Malu Castellanos +1

Graph analytics is becoming increasingly popular, with a deluge of new systems for graph analytics having been proposed in the past few years. These systems often start from the as…

cs.DB2012★ 3 cited

Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants

Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, Stefan Richter +3

Yellow elephants are slow. A major reason is that they consume their inputs entirely before responding to an elephant rider's orders. Some clever riders have trained their yellow e…