SIGMOD Best Paper Award

Best paperResearch

• GPM: The Gaussian Pancake Mechanism for Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Differential Privacy
  Haochen Sun (University of Waterloo) and Xi He (University of Waterloo)

Honorable mentionsResearch

• F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
  Xinyu Zeng (Tsinghua University), Ruijun Meng (Tsinghua University), Martin Prammer (Carnegie Mellon University), Wes McKinney (Posit PBC), Jignesh Patel (Carnegie Mellon University), Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University), and Huanchen Zhang (Tsinghua University)
• Integrating Vector Databases across Embedding Models
  Beining Yang (University of Edinburgh), Yang Cao (University of Edinburgh), and Yang Ren (Edinburgh Research Center, Central Software Institute, Huawei)
• Sublime: Sublinear Error & Space for Unbounded Skewed Streams
  Navid Eslami (University of Toronto), Ioana Bercea (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Rasmus Pagh (BARC, University of Copenhagen), Niv Dayan (University of Toronto)

Best paperIndustry

• CoddSpeed: Hardware Accelerated Query Processing in Microsoft Fabric
  Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft)*; Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft); Brandon Haynes (Microsoft); Carlo Curino (Microsoft); Rathijit Sen (Microsoft); Yinan Li (Microsoft); Kaushik Rajan (Microsoft); Bailu Ding (Microsoft); Lukas Maas (Microsoft); Wei Cui (Microsoft); Kevin Gaffney (Microsoft); Mingsheng Hong (Microsoft); Brian Kroth (Microsoft); Sampath Rajenda (Microsoft); Peng Cheng (Microsoft); Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft); Johannes Gehrke (Microsoft); Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft); Lidong Zhou (Microsoft); Momin Al-Ghosien (Microsoft); Craig Peeper (Microsoft); Marius Dumitru (Microsoft); Conor Cunningham (Microsoft); Kevin Bocksrocker (Microsoft); Prasanna Sundar (Microsoft); Ron Boskovic (Microsoft); YongChul Kwon (Microsoft); Marko Zivanovic (Microsoft); Runbin Shi (Microsoft); Krystian Sakowski (Microsoft); Denis Lamtsov (Microsoft); Josep Aguilar Saborit (Microsoft); Krish Srinivasan (Microsoft); Adarsh Kapil (Microsoft); Andrew Putnam (Microsoft); Anudeep Kambapu (Microsoft); Aparna Konduri (Microsoft); Aaron Landy (Microsoft); Aaron Moore (Microsoft); Aaron Pitman (Microsoft); Artem Oks (Microsoft); Ashit Gosalia (Microsoft); Babu Kandimalla (Microsoft); Blake Pelton (Microsoft); Bogdan Crivat (Microsoft); Cesar Galindo-Legaria (Microsoft); Chidamber Kulkarni (Microsoft); Esteban Calvo (Microsoft); Evgeny Babin (Microsoft); Hans Lehnert Marino (Microsoft); Igor Konev (Microsoft); Israel Arroyo (Microsoft); Jesus Camacho Rodriguez (Microsoft); Luis Penaranda (Microsoft); Mandar Datar (Microsoft); Morten Borup Petersen (Microsoft); Nicholas Simmons (Microsoft); Parminder Poonian (Microsoft); Pravija Danda (Microsoft); Rob Rydberg (Microsoft); Ronak Bajaj (Microsoft); Sai Sumanth Kammal Shetty (Microsoft); Sharanya Bhat (Microsoft); Zach Iracheta (Microsoft)

Honorable mentionIndustry

• Enzyme: Incremental View Maintenance for Data Engineering
  Ritwik Yadav (Databricks, Inc.); Supun Abeysinghe (Databricks, Inc.); Min Yang (Databricks, Inc.); Jeffrey Helt (Databricks, Inc.); Manuel Ung (Databricks, Inc.); Yuhong Chen (Databricks, Inc.); Melody Hu (Databricks, Inc.); William Wei (Databricks, Inc.); Yiming Yang (Databricks, Inc.); Tom van Bussel (Databricks, Inc.); Sourav Chatterji (Databricks, Inc.); Indrajit Roy (Databricks, Inc.); Paul Lappas (Google, Inc.); Yannis Papakonstantinou (Google, Inc.); Tahir Fayyaz (Databricks, Inc.); Bilal Aslam (Databricks, Inc.); Ross Bunker (Databricks, Inc.); Michael Armbrust (Databricks, Inc.); Shrikanth Shankar (Databricks, Inc.)

Best papersResearch

• LpBound: Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation Using Lp-Norms of Degree Sequences
  Haozhe Zhang, Christoph Mayer, Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Dan Olteanu, Dan Suciu
• Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?
  Kaisong Huang, Jiatang Zhou, Zhuoyue Zhao, Dong Xie, Tianzheng Wang

Honorable mentionsResearch

• CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views
  Nuno Faria, José Pereira
• DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering
  Mihail Stoian, Andreas Kipf

Best paperIndustry

• Unlocking the Potential of CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases
  Xinjun Yang, Yingqiang Zhang, Hao Chen, Feifei Li, Gerry Fan, Yang Kong, Bo Wang, Jing Fang, Yuhui Wang, Tao Huang, Wenpu Hu, Jim Kao, Jianping Jiang

Best paperResearch

• Implementation Strategies for Views over Property Graphs
  Soonbo Han and Zack Ives

Honorable mentionsResearch

• Reservoir Sampling over Joins
  Binyang DAI, Xiao Hu, and Ke Yi
• On The Reasonable Effectiveness of Relational Diagrams: Explaining Relational Query Patterns and the Pattern Expressiveness of Relational Languages
  Wolfgang Gatterbauer and Cody Dunne
• SAGA: A Scalable Framework for Optimizing Data Cleaning Pipelines for Machine Learning Applications
  Shafaq Siddiqi, Roman Kern, and Matthias Boehm

Best paperIndustry

• PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory
  Xinjun Yang, Yingqiang Zhang, Hao Chen, Feifei Li, Bo Wang, Jing Fang, Chuan Sun, and Yuhui Wang

Best papersResearch

• Predicate Pushdown for Data Science Pipelines
  Cong Yan, Yin Lin, Yeye He
• Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS
  Xiu Tang, Sai Wu, Dongxiang Zhang, Feifei Li, Gang Chen

Best paperIndustry

• PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs
  Renzo Angles, Angela Bonifati, Stefania Dumbrava, George Fletcher, Alastair Green, Jan Hidders, Bei Li, Leonid Libkin, Victor Marsault, Wim Martens, Filip Murlak, Stefan Plantikow, Ognjen Savkovic, Michael Schmidt, Juan Sequeda, Sławek Staworko, Dominik Tomaszuk, Hannes Voigt, Domagoj Vrgoc, Mingxi Wu, Dušan Živković

Best paperResearch

• R2T: Instance-optimal Truncation for Differentially Private Query Evaluation with Foreign Keys
  Wei DONG, Juanru FANG, Ke Yi, Yuchao Tao, Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Honorable mentionsResearch

• Conjunctive Queries with Comparisons
  Qichen Wang, Ke Yi
• Ad Hoc Transactions in Web Applications: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  Chuzhe Tang, Zhaoguo Wang, Xiaodong Zhang, Qianmian Yu, Binyu Zang, Haibing Guan, Haibo Chen

Best paperIndustry

• Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems
  Alexander Behm, Shoumik Palkar, Utkarsh Agarwal, Tim Armstrong, David Cashman, Ankur Dave, Todd Greenstein, Shant Hovsepian, Ryan Johnson, Arvind Sai Krishnan, Paul Leventis, Ala Luszczak, Prashanth Menon, Mostafa Mokhtar, Gene Pang, Sameer Paranjpye, Greg Rahn, Bart Samwel, Tom van Bussel, Herman van Hovell, Maryann Xue, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia

Best papersResearch

• Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical
  Ryan Marcus, Parimarjan, Hongzi Mao, Nesime Tatbul, Mohammad Alizadeh, Tim Kraska
• DFI – The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks
  Lasse Thostrup, Jan Skrzypczak, Matthias Jasny, Tobias Ziegler, Carsten Binnig

Best paperData science

• SliceLine: Fast, Linear-Algebra-based Slice Finding for ML Model Debugging
  Svetlana Sagadeeva, Matthias Boehm

Best paperIndustry

• FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional KeyValue Store
  Jingyu Zhou, Meng Xu, Alexander Shraer, Alex Miller, Bala Namasivayam, Evan Tschannen, Rusty Sears, John Leach, Dave Rosenthal, Will Wilson, Ben Collins, David Scherer, Steve Atherton, Andrew Beamon, Xin Dong, Alec Grieser, Young Liu, Alvin Moore, Bhaskar Muppana, Xiaoge Su, Vishesh Yadav

Best papers

• ShapeSearch: A Flexible and Efficient System for Shape-based Exploration of Trendlines
  Tarique Siddiqui, Paul Luh, Zesheng Wang, Karrie Karahalios, Aditya Parameswaran
• Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects
  Clemens Lutz, Sebastian Breß, Steffen Zeuch, Tilmann Rabl, Volker Markl

Best paper

• Interventional Fairness : Causal Database Repair for Algorithmic Fairness
  Babak Salimi, Luke Rodriguez, Bill Howe, and Dan Suciu

Best paper

• SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries
  Huanchen Zhang, Hyeontaek Lim, Viktor Leis, David Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Kimberly Keeton, and Andrew Pavlo

Best paper

• Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations
  Wenfei Fan, Jingbo Xu , Yinghui Wu, Wenyuan Yu, Jiaxin Jiang, Zeyu Zheng, Bohan Zhang, Yang Cao, and Chao Tian

Best paper

• Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks
  Feifei Li, Bin Wu, Ke Yi, Zhuoyue Zhao

Best paper

• DBSCAN Revisited: Mis-Claim, Un-Fixability, and Approximation
  Yufei Tao, Junhao Gan

Best paper

• Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads
  Ce Zhang, Arun Kumar, Christopher Ré

Best paper

• Massive Graph Triangulation
  Xiaocheng Hu, Yufei Tao, Chin-Wan Chung

Best paper

• High-Performance Complex Event Processing over XML Streams
  Barzan Mozafari, Kai Zeng, Carlo Zaniolo

Best paper

• Entangled Queries: Enabling Declarative Data-Driven Coordination
  Nitin Gupta, Lucja Kot, Sudip Roy, Gabriel Bender, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch

Best paper

• FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs
  Changkyu Kim, Jatin Chhugani, Nadathur Satish, Eric Sedlar, Anthony Nguyen, Tim Kaldewey, Victor Lee, Scott Brandt, and Pradeep Dubey

Best paper

• Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs
  Christopher Olston, Shubham Chopra, and Utkarsh Srivastava

Honorable mention

• An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-Store
  Milena G. Ivanova, Martin L. Kersten, Niels J. Nes, and Romulo A.P. Goncalves

Best papers

• Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases
  Michael Cahill, Uwe Roehm, and Alan Fekete
• Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases
  Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, and Houman Alborzi

Best papers

• Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases
  Sergey Melnik, Atul Adya, and Philip Bernstein
• Scalable Approximate Query Processing with the DBO Engine
  Christopher Jermaine, Subramanian Arumugam, Abhijit Pol, and Alin Dobra

Best paper

• To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks
  Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay Jain, and Luis Gravano

Best paper

• Indexing Spatio-Temporal Trajectories with Chebyshev Polynomials
  Raymond Ng and Yuhan Cai

Best paper

• Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP
  Abhinav Gupta, Andy Witkowski, Gregory Dorman, Srikanth Bellamkonda, Tolga Bozkaya, Nathan Folkert, and Lei Sheng

Best paper

• Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Deduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases
  Eamonn Keogh, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehrotra, and Michael Pazzani

Best paper

• XMill: An Efficient Compressor for XML data
  Hartmut Liefke and Dan Suciu

Best paper

• DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses
  Yannis Kotidis and Nick Roussopoulos

Best papers

• Efficient Transparent Application Recovery in Client Server Information Systems
  David Lomet and Gerhard Weikum
• Integrating Association Rule Mining with Relational Database Systems: Alternatives and Implications
  Sunita Sarawagi, Shiby Thomas, and Rakesh Agrawal

Best paper

• Fast Parallel Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases
  Stefan Berchtold, Christian Bohm, Bernhard Braunmuller, Daniel Keim, and Hans Peter Kriegel

Best paper

• Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently
  Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeffrey Ullman

Best papers

• Fast Subsequence Matching in Time-Series Databases
  Christos Faloutsos, M. Ranganathan, and Yannis Manolopoulos
• AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort
  Chris Nyberg, Tom Barclay, Zarka Cvetanovic, Jim Gray, and David Lomet