The 2025 SIGMOD Awards Committee comprising Sourav S. Bhowmick, Angela Bonifati, V. Jagadish, David Maier, Sharad Mehrotra (Chair), Rachel Pottinger, Sayan Ranu, Cyrus Shahabi, Wang-Chiew Tanis happy to announce the following recipients of the 2025 ACM SIGMOD awards.
The SIGMOD 2025 Edgar F Codd Innovations Award goes to Carlo Zaniolo for his groundbreaking contributions to database languages and query optimization on complex database models with long-lasting impact on research and industrial application.
The SIGMOD 2025 Contributions Award goes to Hector Munoz-Avila and Spengler, Sylvia for their outstanding service to the database community by initiating and supporting research, and for increasing awareness globally about the importance of database innovation.
The 2025 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award goes to “K-shape: Efficient and accurate clustering of time series” by John Paparrizos and Luis Gravano
The 2025 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award goes to “Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database“. The list of contributors is James C. Corbett Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild, Wilson Hsieh, Sebastian Kanthak, Alexander Lloyd, Sergey Melnik, David Mwaura, Sean Quinlan, Lindsay Rolig, Yasushi Saito, Michal Szymaniak, Christopher Taylor, Ruth Wang, Dale Woodford, David F. Bacon, Shannon Bales, Nico Bruno, Brian F. Cooper, Adam Dickinson, Campbell Fraser, Milind Joshi, Eugene Kogan, Rajesh Rao, David Shue, Marcel van der Holst, Cliff Frey, Damian Reeves, Steve Middlekauff, Mert Akdere, Ben Vandiver, Dan Glick, David Ziegler, Alex Khesin, Dave Weissman, Todd Lipcon, Sean Dorward, Eric Veach, and JJ Furman