VLDB 2025: Conference Awards

Best Research Papers

PDF Diva: Dynamic Range Filter for Var-Length Keys and Queries

Navid Eslami (University of Toronto);Ioana Bercea (KTH Royal Institute of Technology);Niv Dayan (University of Toronto)

PDF AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets

Mateusz Gienieczko (TUM);Maximilian Kuschewski (Technical University of Munich);Thomas Neumann (Technical University of Munich);Viktor Leis (Technical University of Munich);Jana Giceva (Technical University of Munich)

Best Research Paper Runner-Up

PDF The Key to Effective UDF Optimization: Before Inlining, First Perform Outlining

Samuel Arch (Carnegie Mellon University);Yuchen Liu (Carnegie Mellon University);Todd Mowry (Carnegie Mellon University);Jignesh Patel (Carnegie Mellon University);Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)

Best Industry Paper

PDF Ursa: A Lakehouse-Native Data Streaming Engine for Kafka

Sijie Guo (StreamNative);Matteo Merli (StreamNative);Hang Chen (StreamNative);Neng Lu (StreamNative);Penghui Li (StreamNative)

Best Industry Paper Runner-Up

PDF Delta Sharing: An Open Protocol for Cross-Platform Data Sharing

Krishna Puttaswamy (Databricks);Abhijit Chakankar (Databricks);Tao Tao (Databricks);Zaheera Valani (Databricks);Ramesh Chandra (Databricks);William Chau (Databricks);Mengxi Chen (Databricks);Akram Chetibi (Databricks);Tianyi Huang (Databricks);Jonathan Keller (Databricks);Celia Kung (Databricks);Andy Liu (Databricks);Charlene Lyu (Databricks);Samarth Shetty (Databricks);Xiaotong Sun (Databricks);Steve Weis (Databricks);Lin Zhou (Databricks);Ryan Zhu (Databricks);Reynold Xin (Databricks);Matei Zaharia (Databricks)

Best Experiment, Analysis & Benchmark Paper

PDF The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries

Yannis Foufoulas (Athena Research Center);Theoni Palaiologou (Athena Research Center);Alkis Simitsis (Athena Research Center)

Best Experiment, Analysis & Benchmark Paper Runner-Up

PDF The LDBC Financial Benchmark: Transaction Workload

Shipeng Qi (Ant Group);Bing Tong (CreateLink Technology);Jiatao Hu (Tsinghua University);Heng Lin (Ant Group);Yue Pang (Peking University);Wei Yuan ( China Software Testing Center);Songlin Lyu (Ant Group);Zhihui Guo (Ant Group);Ke Huang (Ant Group);Xujin Ba (Shanghai Jiao Tong University);Qiang Yin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University);Youren Shen (Beijing Haizhixingtu Technology);Yan Zhou (CreateLink Technology);Tao Lv (China Software Testing Center);Jia Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou));Lei Zou (Peking University);Yongwei Wu (Tsinghua University);Gábor Szárnyas (LDBC);Xiaowei Zhu (Ant Group);Wenguang Chen (Tsinghua University);Chuntao Hong (Ant Group)

Best Scalable Data Science Paper

PDF Chameleon: a Heterogeneous and Disaggregated Accelerator System for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

Wenqi Jiang (ETH Zurich);Marco Zeller (ETH Zurich);Roger Waleffe (University of Wisconsin-Madison);Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich);Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ)

Best Demo

PDF UmbraPerf - Profiling Results Tailored for DBMS Developers

Alexander Beischl (Technical University of Munich);Thomas Neumann (Technical University of Munich)

Best Demo Runner-Up

PDF Mining Meaningful Keys and Foreign Keys with High Precision and Recall

Henning Koehler (Massey University);Sebastian Link (University of Auckland)

Distinguished Associate Editors

Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt)
Matthias Boehm (Technical University of Berlin)
Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University)
Yi Chen (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Sudipto Das (Amazon Web Services)
Antonios Deligiannakis (Technical University of Crete)
Karima Echihabi (Mohamed VI Polytechnic University)
Raul Castro Fernandez (University of Chicago)
Jana Giceva (Technical University of Munich)
Katja Hose (Technical University of Vienna)
Eric Lo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Nikos Mamoulis (University of Ioannina)
Stefan Manegold (CWI)
Norman May (SAP SE)
Umar Farooq Minhas (Microsoft)
Tamer Ozsu (University of Waterloo)
Alkis Simitsis (Athena Research Center)
Pinar Tozun (IT University of Copenhagen)
Yannis Velegrakis (Utrecht University)
Raymond Chi-Wing Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Distinguished Reviewers

Abolfazl Asudeh (University of Illinois Chicago)
Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Sourav S. Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
Matteo Ceccarello (University of Padovaa)
Andrew Crotty (Northwestern University)
Patrick Damme (TU Berlin)
Bailu Ding (Microsoft Research)
Jialin Ding (Amazon Web Services)
Christos Doulkeridis (University of Piraeus)
Ziqiang Feng (Google)
Aristides Gionis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Michael Grossniklaus (University of Konstanz)
Vincenzo Gulisano (Chalmers University of Technology)
Rihan Hai (TU Delft)
Wook-Shin Han (POSTECH)
Oktie Hassanzadeh (IBM Research)
Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft)
Soren Kejser Jensen (Aalborg University)
Vasiliki Kalavri (Boston University)
Bojan Karlas (Harvard University)
Oliver Kennedy (University at Buffalo)
Arnd Christian Konig (Microsoft)
Viktor Leis (TU Munich)
Alberto Lerner (University of Fribourg)
Tianyu Li (MIT)
Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania)
Davide Martinenghi (Politecnico di Milano)
Eliena Pastor (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Ilia Petrov (Reutlingen University)
Patrick Schafer (HU Berlin)
Maximilian Schule (University of Bamberg)
Malte Schwarzkopf (Brown University)
Roee Shraga (WPI)
Utku Sirin (Harvard University)
Jens Teubner (TU Dortmund)
Hannes Voigt (Neo4j)
Brit Youngmann (Technion)
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou (IT University of Copenhagen)
Bo Zhao (Aalto University)