[2603.03772] Towards Effective Orchestration of AI x DB Workloads

Computer Science > Databases arXiv:2603.03772 (cs) [Submitted on 4 Mar 2026] Title:Towards Effective Orchestration of AI x DB Workloads Authors:Naili Xing, Haotian Gao, Zhanhao Zhao, Shaofeng Cai, Zhaojing Luo, Yuncheng Wu, Zhongle Xie, Meihui Zhang, Beng Chin Ooi View a PDF of the paper titled Towards Effective Orchestration of AI x DB Workloads, by Naili Xing and 8 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:AI-driven analytics are increasingly crucial to data-centric decision-making. The practice of exporting data to machine learning runtimes incurs high overhead, limits robustness to data drift, and expands the attack surface, especially in multi-tenant, heterogeneous data systems. Integrating AI directly into database engines, while offering clear benefits, introduces challenges in managing joint query processing and model execution, optimizing end-to-end performance, coordinating execution under resource contention, and enforcing strong security and access-control guarantees. This paper discusses the challenges of joint DB-AI, or AIxDB, data management and query processing within AI-powered data systems. It presents various challenges that need to be addressed carefully, such as query optimization, execution scheduling, and distributed execution over heterogeneous hardware. Database components such as transaction management and access control need to be re-examined to support AI lifecycle management, mitigate data drift, and protect sensitive data from unauth...