CIDR 2024
January 14-17, 2024 Chaminade, USA
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CIDR 2024 Program
Sunday
3:00pm
Hotel check-in and conference registration
3:00 – 6:006:00pm
Dinner
6:00 – 7:307:30pm
Happy hour
7:30 – 8:30 Complementary beer, wise, and cheeseboard provided by Chaminade8:30pm
Informal reception
8:30 – 10:00 Cash bar with complementary whisky tastingMonday
9:00am
Opening and Welcome
9:00 – 9:15 Carlo Curino (Microsoft), Jignesh Patel (University of Wisconsin), Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zürich)9:15am
10:15am
Break
10:45am
Session 1: Core DB 1
Chair: Alberto Lerner10:45 – 11:05 A Critique of Modern SQL and a Proposal Towards a Simple and Expressive Query Language Thomas Neumann (TUM); Viktor Leis (Technische Universität München)*
11:05 – 11:25 A Model for Query Execution Over Heterogeneous Instances Ziheng Wang (Stanford)*; Emanuel Adamiak (Stanford); Alex Aiken (Stanford University)
11:25 – 11:45 Predicate Transfer: Efficient Pre-Filtering on Multi-Join Queries Yifei Yang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)*; Hangdong Zhao (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Xiangyao Yu (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Paraschos Koutris (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:45 – 12:15 Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems Tamer Eldeeb (Columbia University)*; Philip Bernstein (Microsoft Research); Asaf Cidon (Columbia University); Junfeng Yang (Columbia University)
12:15pm
Spare time
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Session 2: Systems/HW
Chair: Rathijit Sen1:30 – 1:50 Database Kernels: Seamless Integration of Database Systems and Fast Storage via CXL Sangjin Lee (University of Fribourg); Alberto Lerner (University of Friborug)*; Philippe Bonnet (IT Univ Copenhagen, Denmark); Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (Exascale Infolab, Fribourg University)
1:50 – 2:10 Program your (custom) SIMD instruction set on FPGA in C++ Johannes Pietrzyk (TU Dresden)*; Alexander Krause (TU Dresden); Christian Faerber (Intel Corporation); Dirk Habich (TU Dresden); Wolfgang Lehner (TU Dresden)
2:10 – 2:30 Taking the Shortcut: Actively Incorporating the Virtual Memory Index of the OS to Hardware-Accelerate Databases Indexing Felix M Schuhknecht (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)*
2:30pm
3:15pm
Break
3:45pm
Session 3: Cloud 1
Chair: Fatma Ozcan3:45 – 4:05 The Tipping Point of Edge-Cloud Data Management Faisal Nawab (University of California at Irvine)*; Moshe Shadmon (AnyLog)
4:05 – 4:25 Cost-Intelligent Data Analytics in the Cloud Huanchen Zhang (Tsinghua University)*; Yihao Liu (Tsinghua University); Jiaqi Yan (Snowflake)
4:25 – 4:45 Towards Resource-adaptive Query Execution in Cloud Native Databases Rui Liu (University of Chicago)*; Jun Hyuk Chang (University of Chicago); Riki Otaki (University of Chicago); Zhe Heng Eng (University of Chicago); Aaron J Elmore (University of Chicago); Michael Franklin (University of Chicago); Sanjay Krishnan (UChicago)
4:45pm
Spare time
6:00pm
Dinner
7:30pm
Gong Show and Database Quiz
Chair: Andy Pavlo 7:30 – 9:009:00pm
Social hour
9:00 – 10:00 Between 7:30 and 10:00, cash bar and snacks are available with complementary whisky tastingTuesday
9:00am
Session 4: Core DB 2
Chair: Anastasia Ailamaki9:00 – 9:20 Is Perfect Hashing Practical for OLAP Systems? Kevin P Gaffney (University of Wisconsin-Madison)*; Jignesh Patel (Carnegie Mellon University)
9:20 – 9:40 Oligolithic Cross-task Optimizations across Isolated Workloads Eleni Zapridou (EPFL)*; Panagiotis Sioulas (EPFL); Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)
9:40 – 10:00 Dear User-Defined Functions, Inlining isn’t working out so great for us. Let’s try batching to make our relationship work. Sincerely, SQL Kai Franz (Carnegie Mellon University); Samuel I Arch (Carnegie Mellon University)*; Denis Hirn (Universität Tübingen); Torsten Grust (Universität Tübingen); Todd Mowry (Carnegie Mellon University); Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)
10:00am
Spare time
10:20am
Break
10:50am
Session 5: Benchmarking/Testing
Chair: Magdalena Balazinska10:50 – 11:10 Panda: Performance Debugging for Databases using LLM Agents Vikramank Y Singh (Amazon)*; Kapil Vaidya (MIT); Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar (Amazon); Sopan Khosla (AWS AI Labs); Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy (Amazon); Rashmi Gangadharaiah (AWS AI, Amazon); Tim Kraska (MIT)
11:10 – 11:30 TracEx: Understanding and Analyzing Database Traces Dominik Durner (TUM)*; Lennart Espe (TU München); Jana Giceva (TU Munich); Anja Gruenheid (Microsoft)
11:30 – 11:50 Towards an Objective Metric for Data Value Through Relevance Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology)*; Pengyuan Li (Illinois institute of thechnology); Ziyu Liu (Illinois institute of thechnology); Dieter Gawlick (Oracle); Vasudha Krishnaswamy (Oracle, USA); Danica Porobic (Oracle); Zhen Hua Liu (Oracle)
11:50 – 12:10 Leopard: A General Test Suite for Isolation Level Verification Peiyuan Liu (East China Normal University)*; Siyang Weng (East China Normal University); Keqiang Li (East China Normal University); Lyu Ni (East China Normal University); Chengcheng Yang (East China Normal University); Rong Zhang (East China Normal University); Weining Qian (East China Normal University); Dian Qiao (Huawei)
12:15pm
Lunch
1:45pm
Spare time
3:00pm
Session 6: GenAI 1
Chair: Eugene Wu3:00 – 3:20 NL2SQL is a solved problem... Not! Avrilia Floratou (Microsoft)*; Fotis Psallidas (Microsoft); Fuheng Zhao (Microsoft); Shaleen Deep (Microsoft Gray Systems Lab); Gunther Hagleither (Waii); Wangda Tan (Waii); Joyce Cahoon (Microsoft); Rana Alotaibi (Microsoft); Jordan Henkel (Microsoft); Abhik Singla (Microsoft); Alex Van Grootel (Microsoft); Brandon Chow (Microsoft); Kai Deng (Microsoft); Katherine Lin (Microsoft); Marcos Campos (Microsoft); Venkatesh Emani (Microsoft); Vivek Pandit (Microsoft); Victor Shnayder (Microsoft); Wenjing Wang (Microsoft); Carlo Curino (Microsoft -- GSL)
3:20 – 3:40 Welding Natural Language Queries to Analytics IRs with LLMs Kaushik Rajan (Microsoft Research)*; Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft); Akash Lal (Microsoft Research); Sampath Rajendra (Microsoft); Krithika Subramanian (Microsoft); Krut Patel (Microsoft)
3:40 – 4:00 Turning Databases Into Generative AI Machines Alekh Jindal (SmartApps)*; Shi Qiao (SmartApps Inc); Sathwik Madhula (SmartApps); Kanupriya Raheja (SmartApps); Sandhya Jain (SmartApps)
4:10pm
Break
4:30pm
Session 7: Cloud 2
Chair: Chris Douglas4:30 – 4:50 Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless Michal Wawrzoniak (ETHZ)*; Gianluca Moro (ETH Zurich); Rodrigo Bruno (Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC-ID Lisboa); Ana Klimovic (ETH Zurich); Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ)
4:50 – 5:10 Serverless State Management Systems Tianyu Li (MIT CSAIL)*; Badrish Chandramouli (Microsoft Research); Sebastian C Burckhardt (Microsoft Research); Samuel Madden (MIT)
5:10 – 5:30 Optimizing the cloud? Don’t train models. Build oracles! Tiemo Bang (UC Berkeley)*; Conor Power (UC Berkeley); Siavash Ameli (University of California, Berkeley); Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley); Joseph M Hellerstein (UC Berkeley)
5:30 – 5:50 Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the BIG DEAL? Pat Helland (Salesforce)*
6:00pm
Dinner
7:30pm
Session 8: Startup Session
Chair: Danica Porobic7:30 – 7:50 Yellowbrick: An Elastic Data Warehouse on Kubernetes Mark A Cusack (Yellowbrick Data)*; John Adamson (Yellowbrick Data); Mark Brinicombe (Yellowbrick Data, Inc); Neil A Carson (Yellowbrick Data); Thomas Kejser (Yellowbrick); Jim Peterson (Yellowbrick); Arvind Vasudev (YB); Kurt Westerfeld (Yellowbrick Data); Robert Wipfel (Yellowbrick Data)
7:50 – 8:10 MotherDuck: DuckDB in the cloud and in the client RJ Atwal (MotherDuck); Peter Boncz (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)*; Ryan Boyd (Boyd); Antony Courtney (MotherDuck); Till Döhmen (University of Amsterdam); Florian Gerlinghoff (MotherDuck); Jeff Huang (MotherDuck); Joseph Hwang (MotherDuck); Raphael Hyde (MotherDuck); Elena Felder (MotherDuck); Jacob Lacouture (MotherDuck); Yves Le Maout (MotherDuck); Boaz Leskes (MotherDuck); Yao Liu (MotherDuck); Alex Monahan (MotherDuck); Dan Perkins (MotherDuck); Tino Tereshko (MotherDuck); Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck); Nick Ursa (MotherDuck); Stephanie Wang (MotherDuck); Yannick Welsch (MotherDuck)
8:10pm
Social event
8:10 – 10:00 Between 7:30 and 10:00, cash bar and snacks are available with complementary whisky tastingWednesday
9:00am
Keynote 2
9:00 – 10:00 Chair: Carlo Curino Processing-in-memory: A Retrospective from a Real-World Product Experience Alexandra Fedorova (UBC)10:00am
Break
10:30am
Session 9: GenAI 2
Chair: Avrilia Floratou10:30 – 10:50 CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners Matthias Urban (Technical University of Darmstadt)*; Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt)
10:50 – 11:10 The Fast and the Private: Task-based Dataset Search Zezhou Huang (Columbia University)*; Jiaxiang Liu (Columbia University); Haonan Wang (Columbia); Eugene Wu (Columbia University)
11:10 – 11:30 Revisiting Prompt Engineering via Declarative Crowdsourcing Aditya Parameswaran (University of California, Berkeley)*; Shreya Shankar (University of California Berkeley); Parth Asawa (UC Berkeley); Naman Jain (UC Berkeley); Yujie Wang (UC Berkeley)
11:30 – 11:50 SMARTFEAT: Efficient Feature Construction through Feature-Level Foundation Model Interactions Yin Lin (University of Michigan)*; Bolin Ding ("Data Analytics and Intelligence Lab, Alibaba Group"); H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan); Jingren Zhou (Alibaba Group)
Presentation skipped VerifAI: Verified Generative AI Nan Tang (HKUST, GZ); Chenyu Yang (HKUST, GZ); Ju Fan (Renmin University of China)*; Lei Cao (University of Arizona/MIT); Yuyu Luo (HKUST, GZ); Alon Y Halevy (Facebook)