The SIGMOD Systems Award is awarded to an individual or set of individuals to recognize the development of a software or hardware system whose technical contributions have had significant impact on the theory or practice of large-scale data management systems. The SIGMOD Awards Committee determines the recipient(s) of the award (from 2015-2019 the SIGMOD Systems Award Committee determined the recipient(s)).
| 2022 | Apache Spark | [citation] |  |
Michael Armbrust, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Wenchen Fan, Michael J. Franklin, Huaxin Gao, Maxim Gekk, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph Gonzalez, Liang-Chi Hsieh, Dongjoon Hyun, Hyukjin Kwon, Xiao Li, Cheng Lian, Yanbo Liang, Xiangrui Meng, Sean Owen, Josh Rosen, Kousuke Saruta, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Takuya Ueshin, Shivaram Venkataraman, Gengliang Wang, Yuming Wang, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Takeshi Yamamuro, Kent Yao, Matei Zaharia, Ruifeng Zheng, and Shixiong Zhu |
| 2021 | Sloan Digital Sky Survey | [citation] |  |
Michael Blanton, Adam Bolton, Bill Boroski, Joel Brownstein, Robert Brunner, Tamas Budavari, Sam Carliles, Jim Gray, Steve Kent, Peter Kunszt, Gerard Lemson, Nolan Li, Dmitry Medvedev, Jeff Munn, Deoyani Nandrekar-Heinis, Maria Nieto-Santisteban, Wil O’Mullane, Victor Paul, Don Slutz, Alex Szalay, Gyula Szokoly, Manu Taghizadeh-Popp, Jordan Raddick, Bonnie Souter, Ani Thakar, Jan Vandenberg, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Sue Werner, Brian Yanny, Donald York, and the SDSS collaboration. |
| 2020 | BerkeleyDB | [citation] |  |
Don Anderson, Keith Bostic, Alan Bram, Greg Burd, Michael Cahill, Ron Cohen, Alex Gorrod, George Feinberg, Mark Hayes, Charles Lamb, Linda Lee, Susan LoVerso, John Merrells, Mike Olson, Carol Sandstrom, Steve Sarette, David Schacter, David Segleau, Margo Seltzer, Mike Ubell |
| 2019 | Aurora | [citation] |  |
Xiaofeng Bao, Charlie Bell, Murali Brahmadesam, James Corey, Neal Fachan, Raju Gulabani, Anurag Gupta, Kamal Gupta, James Hamilton, Andy Jassy, Tengiz Kharatishvili, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Yan Leshinsky, Lon Lundgren, Pradeep Madhavarapu, Sandor Maurice, Grant McAlister, Sam McKelvie, Raman Mittal, Debanjan Saha, Swami Sivasubramanian, Stefano Stefani, Alex Verbitski |
| 2018 | Hive and Pig | [citation] |  |
Jeff Hammerbacher (MUSC), Ashish Thusoo (Qubole), Joydeep Sen Sarma (Qubole), Christopher Olston (Google), Benjamin Reed (Facebook), Utkarsh Srivastava (Google) |
| 2017 | SQLite | [citation] |  |
Richard Hipp |
| 2016 | MonetDB | [citation] |  |
Martin Kersten |
| 2015 | Postgres | [citation] |   |
Michael Stonebraker, Lawrence Rowe |