Database Conference Paper List in 2017
Here is a list of major database conference papers in 2017:
The above list is for traditional database conferences. These days the area of database research has widely spread, and you can find database papers even in operating system conferences such as SOSP, and USENIX conferences (e.g., NSDI, FAST, etc.):
ACM SIGMOD is one of the top academic/industrial conferences of the database field. In SIGMOD 2017, all presentation videos are available on the web. So even if you missed the conference, you can still enjoy the talks by the top-notch researchers!
An interesting video I found is a keynote talk by Andy Pavlo, a famous researcher for his contributions to OLTP database systems:
He made an interesting remark: Nobody cares about our concurrency control research. Although the database research community has been working hard to develop efficient serializable concurrency control protocols, in reality, however, most of the practitioners are using non-serializable protocols. And also transaction processing benchmarks in research papers often use stored procedures to accelerate the throughput. This also doesn’t fit the real uses cases in the world that is full of feral concurrency control. In Database Journal Club, we are trying to fill such gaps by introducing research papers for people who have varieties of backgrounds, including engineers, researchers, etc.
VLDB is another top conference, whose review style has changed since several years ago; Researchers can submit papers at any time to PVLDB (Proceedings of Very Large Database) and papers accepted until a certain deadline will have a chance to talk at the main VLDB conference. So you can find accepted papers every month, and some forks enjoy reading PVLDB as if it were a monthly-magazine.
Even though VLDB has shifted to a monthly-journal style, the conference itself is still worth attending. For example in the main conference of VLDB 2017, Michel Franklin presented interesting slides, where you can find a lot of photos of great database researchers in the history. You can be proud of yourself if you can name all of the researchers in these talk slides!
CIDR has been a good place to see visions for the future database research. CIDR focuses on attracting system-oriented researchers and practitioners. In academic-oriented conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, etc., novelty of the research is highly valued. This means practical studies, which may lack novelty, are often overlooked even if they have a high impact to the field. For example, MapReduce paper was published in OSDI, a non-database conference, probably because similar technologies were already studied for a long time ago in the database research field. I like CIDR because it favors innovative and risky database management systems architecture ideas, experiences, insights, etc.
XLDB2017, which is held annually at Stanford University, is also interesting in that it focuses on challenges in extremely large database systems:
I couldn’t cover all of database conference, but there are many other database conferences and workshops that are really interesting. Let us know if you find something missing, and post it to the Database Journal Club!
