January 18-21, 2026 Chaminade, USA
A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce
Vaibhav Arora
(Salesforce); Subho Chatterjee (Salesforce); Terry Chong (Salesforce); Thomas Fanghaenel
(Salesforce); Pat Helland (Salesforce); Jamie Martin (Salesforce); Kaushal Mittal (Salesforce);
Nat Wyatt (Salesforce)
A Vision for Autonomous Data Agent Collaboration: From Query-by-Integration to
Query-by-Collaboration
Timo Eckmann (Technical University of Darmstadt); Carsten
Binnig (Technical University of Darmstadt)
BenchPress: A Human-in-the-Loop Annotation System for Rapid Text-to-SQL Benchmark
Curation
Fabian Wenz (TUM); Omar Bouattour (TUM/LMU/UA); Devin Yang (MIT); Justin
Choi (MIT); Cecil Gregg (MIT); Nesime Tatbul (Intel Labs and MIT); Çağatay Demiralp (AWS AI and
MIT)
BridgeScope: A Universal Toolkit for Bridging Large Language Models and
Databases
Lianggui Weng (Alibaba Group); Dandan Liu (Alibaba Group); Rong Zhu
(Alibaba Group); Bolin Ding
(Alibaba Group); Jingren Zhou (Alibaba Group)
Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass
Till Steinert
(Technische Universität München); Maximilian Kuschewski (Technische Universität München); Viktor
Leis (Technische Universität München)
Consistency and Correctness in Data-Oriented Workflow Systems
Michael
Stonebraker (MIT); Peter Kraft (DBOS); Qian Li (DBOS)
Data Movement-Aware GPU Sharing for Data-Intensive Systems
Yi Jiang (EPFL);
Hamish Nicholson (EPFL); Viktor Sanca (Oracle); Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)
Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language
Wolfgang
Gatterbauer (Northeastern University); Diandre Sabale (Northeastern University)
Declarative Memory Services
Jeronimo Castrillon (Technische Universität
Dresden); Jana Giceva (Technische Universität München); Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science
and Technology); Kimberly Keeton (Google); Akhil Shekar (University of Virginia); Kevin Skadron
(University of Virginia); Tianzheng Wang (Simon Fraser University); Huanchen Zhang (Tsinghua
University)
Deep Research is the New Analytics System: Towards Building the Runtime for AI-Driven
Analytics
Matthew Russo (MIT); Tim Kraska (MIT)
Does A Fish Need a Bicycle? The Case for On-Chip NPUs in DBMS
Alexander
Baumstark (TU Ilmenau); Kai-Uwe Sattler (TU Ilmenau)
End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud
Infrastructure
Pinghe Li (ETH Zurich); Tom Kuchler (ETH Zurich); Marko Kabić (ETH
Zurich); Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich); Ana Klimovic (ETH Zurich)
Event Horizon: Asymmetric Dependencies for Fast Geo-Distributed
Operations
Jonathan Arns (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Harald Ng (KTH Royal
Institute of
Technology); Kyriakos Psarakis (TU Delft); Asterios Katsifodimos (TU Delft); Paris Carbone (KTH
Royal Institute of Technology)
Examining the Practicality of LLM-based Query Rewriting
Vivek Narasayya
(Microsoft); Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
Fast Vector Search in PostgreSQL: A Decoupled Approach
Jiayi Liu (Purdue
University); Yunan Zhang (Purdue University); Chenzhe Jin (Purdue University); Aditya Gupta
(Purdue University); Shige Liu (Purdue University); Jianguo Wang (Purdue University)
Flexible I/O for Database Management Systems with xNVMe
Emil Houlborg (IT
University of Copenhagen); Andreas Nicolaj Tietgen (IT University of Copenhagen); Simon A. F.
Lund (Samsung); Marcel Weisgut (HPI); Tilmann Rabl (HPI); Javier Gonzalez (Samsung); vivek Shah
(Samsung); Pinar Tozun (IT University of Copenhagen)
Hash Joins Meet CXL: A Fresh Look
Wentao Huang (National University of Singapore);
Mian Lu (4Paradigm Inc.); Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore)
I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL
Server
Hangdong Zhao (Microsoft); Yuanyuan Tian (Microsoft); Rana Alotaibi
(KACST); Bailu Ding (Microsoft); Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft); Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez (Microsoft);
Vassilis Papadimos (Microsoft); Ernesto Cervantes Juárez (Microsoft); Cesar Galindo-Legaria
(Microsoft); Carlo Curino (Microsoft)
KathDB: Explainable Multimodal Database Management System with Human-AI
Collaboration
Guorui Xiao (University of Washington); Enhao Zhang (University of
Washington); Nicole Sullivan (University of Washington); Will Hansen (University of
Washington); Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
Making Prompts First-Class Citizens for Adaptive LLM Pipelines
Ugur
Cetintemel (Brown University); Shu Chen (Brown University); Alexander Lee (Brown University);
Deepti Raghavan (Brown University)
On the Vexing Difficulty of Evaluating IN Predicates
Altan Birler (TUM);
Thomas Neumann (TUM)
Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control
Charlie
Summers (Columbia University); Haneen Mohammed (Columbia University); Eugene Wu (Columbia
University)
Privacy Meets Regulations: Shaping the Future of Work
Mohammad Javad Amiri
(Stony Brook University); Tristan Allard (Univ Rennes); Boon Thau Loo (University of
Pennsylvania); Divyakant Agrawal (University of California Santa Barbara); Amr El Abbadi
(University of California Santa Barbara)
Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries
Amir Shaikhha
(University of Edinburgh); Youning Xia (University of Edinburgh); Meisam Tarabkhah (University
of Edinburgh); Jazal Saleem (University of Edinburgh); Anna Herlihy (EPFL)
Raster is Faster: Rethinking Ray Tracing in Database Indexing
Harish
Doraiswamy (Microsoft Research India); Jayant Haritsa (Indian Institute of Science)
Rethinking Analytical Processing in the GPU Era
Bobbi Yogatama (University of
Wisconsin-Madison); Yifei Yang (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Kevin Kristensen (University
of Wisconsin-Madison); Devesh Sarda (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Abigale Kim (University
of Wisconsin-Madison); Adrian Cockcroft (OrionX); Yu Teng (Independent); Joshua Patterson
(NVIDIA); Gregory Kimball (NVIDIA); Wes McKinney (Posit PBC); Weiwei Gong (Oracle); Xiangyao Yu
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned
Databases
Ioannis Zarkadas (Columbia University); Kelly Kostopoulou (Columbia
University); Thomas Graham
(Columbia University); Junfeng Yang (Columbia University); Phil Bernstein (Microsoft); Asaf
Cidon (Columbia University); Tamer Eldeeb (Columbia University)
Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last?
Jeff Shute
(Google, Inc.); Colin Zheng (Google, Inc.); Romit Kudtarkar (Google, Inc.)
Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First
Shu
Liu (University of California Berkeley); Soujanya Ponnapalli (UC Berkeley); Shreya Shankar (UC
Berkeley); Sepanta Zeighami (UC Berkeley); Alan Zhu (UC Berkeley); Shubham Agarwal (UC
Berkeley); Ruiqi Chen (University of Washington); Samion Suwito (UC Berkeley); Shuo Yuan (UC
Berkeley); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley); Matei Zaharia (UC Berkeley); Alvin Cheung (UC Berkeley);
Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley); Joseph Gonzalez (UC Berkeley); Aditya Parameswaran (UC
Berkeley)
Survivorship Bias in Industrial Database Workloads
Ryan Marcus (University of
Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Tao (University of Pennsylvania); Peizhi Wu (University of Pennsylvania);
Zijie Zhao (University of Pennsylvania)
Text-to-SQL Benchmarks are Broken: An In-Depth Analysis of Annotation
Errors
Tengjun Jin (UIUC); Yoojin Choi (UIUC); Yuxuan Zhu (UIUC); Daniel Kang
(UIUC)
The Pneuma Project: Reifying Information Needs as Relational Schemas to Automate Discovery,
Guide Preparation, and Align Data with Intent
Muhammad Imam Luthfi Balaka (The
University of Chicago); Raul Castro Fernandez (The University of Chicago)
Theseus: A Distributed and Scalable GPU-Accelerated Query Processing Platform Optimized for
Efficient Data Movement
Felipe Aramburu (Voltron Data); William Malpica (Voltron
Data); Kaouther Abrougui (Voltron Data); Amin Aramoon (Voltron Data); Romulo Auccapuclla
(Voltron Data); Claude Brisson (Voltron Data); Matthijs Brobbel (Voltron Data); Colby Farrell
(Voltron Data); Pradeep Garigipati (Voltron Data); Joost Hoozemans (Voltron Data); Supun Supun
Kamburugamuve (Voltron Data); Akhil Nair (Voltron Data); Alexander Ocsa (Voltron Data); Johan
Peltenburg (Voltron Data); Rubén Quesada López (Voltron Data); Deepak Sihag (Voltron Data);
Ahmet Uyar (Voltron Data); Dhruv Vats (Voltron Data); Michael Wendt (Voltron Data); Jignesh
Patel (Voltron Data); Rodrigo Aramburu (Voltron Data)
Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation
El Kindi Rezig
(University of Utah); Mir Mahathir Mohammad (University of Utah); Nicolas Baret (University of
Utah); Ricardo Mayerhofer (Hopara, Inc); Andrew McNutt (University of Utah); Paul Rosen
(University of Utah)
Waiting to Decompress: The Economics of LLM-Based Compression
Andreas Kipf
(University of Technology Nuremberg); Tobias Schmidt (Technical University of Munich); Ping-Lin
Kuo (University of Technology Nuremberg); Skander Krid (University of Technology Nuremberg);
Moritz Rengert (University of Technology Nuremberg); Luca Heller (University of Technology
Nuremberg); Andreas Zimmerer (University of Technology Nuremberg); Mihail Stoian (University of
Technology Nuremberg); Varun Pandey (University of Technology Nuremberg); Alexander van Renen
(University of Technology Nuremberg)