There is a recent trend in database research, ML in databases. Not sure how much an impact it can make though, the sweet spot is doing relatively linear stuff,

There is a recent trend in database research, ML in databases. Not sure how much an impact it can make though, the sweet spot is doing relatively linear stuff, arguably just a step up from analytical functions in queries, while cutting edge ML needs dedicated GPUs for compute load and often uses unstructured and even binary data.