SIGMOD recognizes the best demonstration at the annual conference. There is usually one award for each demo session, but this varies by conference.
2024
Best Demo:
Demonstrating CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners
Matthias Urban and Carsten Binnig
Best Demo Runner-Ups:
Demonstration of Udon: Line-by-line Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Data Workflows
Yicong Huang, Zuozhi Wang, and Chen Li
MillenniumDB: A multi-modal, multi-model graph database engine
Domagoj Vrgoč, Carlos Rojas, Renzo Angles, Marcelo Arenas, Vicente Calisto, Benjamín F. Farías, Sebastián Ferrada, Tristan Heuer, Aidan Hogan, Gonzalo Navarro, Alexander Pinto, Juan Reutter, Henry Rosales, and Etienne Toussiant
2023
Best Demo:
A Demonstration of KAMEL: A Scalable BERT-based System for Trajectory Imputation
Mashaal Musleh and Mohamed Mokbel
Best Demo Runner-Ups:
Proactively Screening Machine Learning Pipelines with ArgusEyes
Sebastian Schelter, Stefan Grafberger, Shubha Guha, Bojan Karlaš, and Ce Zhang
Demonstrating NaturalMiner: Searching Large Data Sets for Abstract Patterns Described in Natural Language
Immanuel Trummer
2022
Best Demo:
Pythia: Unsupervised Generation of Ambiguous Textual Claims from Relational Data
Enzo Veltri, Donatello Santoro, Gilbert Badaro, Mohammed Saeed, Paolo Papotti
Best Demo Runner-Up:
Everest: A Top-K Deep Video Analytics System
Ziliang Lai, Chris Liu, Chenxia Han, Pengfei Zhang, Eric CL Lo, Ben Kao
2021
Best Demo:
Dendrite: Bolt-on Adaptivity for Data Systems
Brad Glasbergen, Fangyu Wu, Khuzaima Daudjee
2020
Best Demo:
Sentinel: Understanding Data Systems
Bradley Glasbergen, Michael Abebe, Khuzaima Daudjee, Daniel Vogel, Jian Zhao
2019
Best Demo:
Visual Exploration of Time Series Anomalies with Metro-Viz
Philipp Eichmann, Franco Solleza, Nesime Tatbul, Stan Zdonik
2018
Best Demos:
Interactive Visual Exploration of Spatio-Temporal Urban Data Sets using Urbane
Harish Doraiswamy, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Fabio Miranda, Marcos Lage, Anastasia Ailamaki, Claudio Silva, Juliana Freire
Interactive Demonstration of Probabilistic Predicats
Yao Lu, Srikanth Kandula, Surajit Chaudhuri
2017
Best Demo:
Demonstration of the Cosette Automated SQL Prover
Shumo Chu, Daniel Li, Chenglong Wang, Alvin Cheung, and Dan Suciu
Honorable Mentions:
Visual Graph Query Construction and Refinement
Robert Pienta, Fred Hohman, Acar Tamersoy, Alex Endert, Shamkant Navathe, Hanghang Tong and Duen Horng Chau
VisualCloud Demonstration: A DBMS for Virtual Reality
Brandon Haynes, Artem Minyalov, Magdalena Balazinska, Luis Ceze and Alvin Cheung
OrpheusDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning
Liqi Xu, Silu Huang, Sili Hui, Aaron Elmore and Aditya Parameswaran
Querying and Exploring Polygamous Relationships in Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets
Yeuk-Yin Chan, Fernando Chirigati, Harish Doraiswamy, Claudio Silva and Juliana Freire
Graph Data Mining with Arabesque
Eslam Hussein, Abdurrahman Ghanem, Vinicius Vitor Dos Santos Dias, Carlos H. C. Teixeira, Ghadeer Abuoda, Marco Serafini, Georgios Siganos, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Ashraf Aboulnaga and Mohammed Zaki
In-Browser Interactive SQL Analytics with Afterburner
Kareem El Gebaly and Jimmy Lin
doppioDB: A Hardware Accelerated Database
David Sidler, Zsolt Istvan, Muhsen Owaida, Kaan Kara and Gustavo Alonso
Optimizing Data-Intensive Applications Automatically By Leveraging Parallel Data Processing Frameworks
Maaz Bin Safeer Ahmad and Alvin Cheung
2016
2015
DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool
John Morcos, Ziawasch Abedjan, Ihab Francis Ilyas, Mourad Ouzzani, Paolo Papotti, Michael Stonebraker
QE3D: Interactive Visualization and Exploration of Complex, Distributed Query Plans
Daniel Scheibli, Christian Dinse, Alexander Boehm
Ringo: Interactive Graph Analytics on Big-Memory Machines
Yonathan Perez, Rok Sosic, Arijit Banerjee, Rohan Puttagunta, Martin Raison, Pararth Shah, Jure Leskovec
STORM: Spatio-Temporal Online Reasoning and Management of Large Spatio-Temporal Data
Robert Christensen, Feifei Li, Lu Wang, Ke Yi, Jun Tang, Natalee Villa
2014
VQA: Vertica Query Analyzer
Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs; Kevin Wilkinson, HP Labs; Jason Blais, Vertica – HP Software; Joe Walsh, Vertica – HP Software
DoomDB – Kill the Query
Carsten Binnig, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University; Abdallah Salama, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University; Erfan Zamanian, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University
ABS: a System for Scalable Approximate Queries with Accuracy Guarantees
Kai Zeng, University of California, Los Angeles; Shi Gao, University of California, Los Angeles; Jiaqi Gu, University of California, Los Angeles; Barzan Mozafari, University of Michigan; Carlo Zaniolo, University of California, Los Angeles