Many modern DBMS architectures require transferring data from storage to process it afterwards. Given the continuously increasing amounts of data, data transfers quickly become a scalability limiting factor. Near-Data Processing and smart/computational storage emerge as promising trends allowing for decoupled in-situ operation execution, data transfer reduction and better bandwidth utilization. However, not every operation is suitable for an in-situ execution and a careful placement and optimization is needed. In this paper we present an NDP-aware cost model. It has been implemented in MySQL and evaluated with nKV. We make several observations underscoring the need for optimization.