Microsoft at VLDB

Microsoft at VLDB

Microsoft is a proud Platinum sponsor for VLDB, a premier annual international forum for data management and database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.

Program Committee

Associate Editors: Surajit Chaudhuri

Publicity Committee Chair: Sumita Barahmand

Local Arrangements Chair: Tyson Condie

PVLDB Review Board Members: Azade Nazi, Philip Bernstein, Umar Farooq Minhas, Badrish Chandramouli, Donald Kossmann, Vivek Narasayya, Arvind Arasu, Avrilia Floratou, Carlo Curino, Tyson Condie

Microsoft attendees

Panagiotis Antonopoulos
Geetha Athreya
Philip Bernstein
Badrish Chandramouli
Guoheng Chen
Austin Deal
Mathieu Demarne
Bailu Ding
Anshuman Dutt
Miro Flasza
Jay Gandhi
Alan Halverson
Howard Huang
Alekh Jindal
Timothy Johnson
Maxim Kiryushin
Raghavendra Thallam Kodandaramaih
Hanuma Kodavalla
Yinan Li
Yao Lu
Umar Farooq Minhas
Adrian Nicoara
Kwanghyun Park
Prashanth Purnananda
Shi Qiao
Adrian-Leonard Radu
Karthik Ramachandra
Chaitanya Sreenivas Ravella
Abhishek Roy
Iuliana Siminiuc
Chirag Varde
Chi Wang
Yue Wang
Wentao Wu
Haohai Yu

Monday, August 26

9:00 AM–10:30 AM | Santa Anita (PhD Workshop)
Database Systems 2.0
Keynote Speaker: Johannes Gehrke

9:00 AM–9:30 AM | Eleventh TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking
Towards Benchmarking Cloud Big Data Services under SLA constraints
Nicolas Poggi, Victor Cuevas-Vicenttín, David Carrera, Josep Lluis Berral, Thomas Fenech, Gonzalo Gomez, Davide Brini, Alejandro Montero, Umar Farooq Minhas, Jose A. Blakeley, Donald Kossmann, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Clemens Szyperski

11:00 AM–12:40 PM | Thirteenth International Workshop on Real-Time Business Intelligence and Analytics
Stream Processing in an Actor-Oriented Database System
Keynote Speaker: Phil Bernstein
PC Co-Chair: Badrish Chandramouli

2:00 PM–3:30 PM | 1st International Workshop on Applied AI for Database Systems and Applications
AI-Powered DBs and the Future of Software
Keynote Speaker: Johannes Gehrke

Tuesday, August 27

11:00 AM–12:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group A)
FishStore: Fast Ingestion and Indexing of Raw Data
Badrish Chandramouli, Dong Xie, Yinan Li, Donald Kossmann

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group B)
BlackMagic: Automatic Inlining of Scalar UDFs into SQL Queries with Froid
Karthik Ramachandra, Kwanghyun Park

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group B)
SparkCruise: Handsfree Computation Reuse in Spark
Abhishek Roy, Alekh Jindal, Hiren Patel, Ashit Gosalia, Subru Krishnan, Carlo Curino

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | Emerald Bay Room (Research Track Papers)
Crossbow: Scaling Deep Learning with Small Batch Sizes on Multi-GPU Servers
Alexandros Koliousis, Pijika Watcharapichat, Matthias Weidlich, Luo Mai, Paolo Costa, Peter Pietzuch

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | Emerald Bay Room (Research Track Papers)
ColumnML: Column-Store Machine Learning with On-The-Fly Data Transformation
Kaan Kara, Ken Eguro, Ce Zhang, Gustavo Alonso

Wednesday, August 28

8:30 AM–9:00 AM | Sacramento/San Francisco Room
DBCares
Speaker: Surajit Chaudhuri

11:00 AM–12:30 PM | San Francisco Room (Industrial Track Papers)
Constant Time Recovery in Azure SQL Database
Panagiotis Antonopoulos, Peter Byrne, Wayne Chen, Cristian Diaconu, Raghavendra Thallam Kodandaramaih, Hanuma Kodavalla, Prashanth Purnananda, Adrian-Leonard Radu, Chaitanya Sreenivas Ravella, Girish Mittur Venkataramanappa

11:00 AM–12:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group A)
FishStore: Fast Ingestion and Indexing of Raw Data
Badrish Chandramouli, Dong Xie, Yinan Li, Donald Kossmann

11:00 AM–12:30 PM | Santa Anita Room (Research Track Papers)
Hyper Dimension Shuffle: Efficient Data Repartition at Petabyte Scale in SCOPE
Shi Qiao, Adrian Nicoara, Jin Sun, Marc T. Friedman, Hiren Patel, Jaliya Ekanayake

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group B)
BlackMagic: Automatic Inlining of Scalar UDFs into SQL Queries with Froid
Karthik Ramachandra, Kwanghyun Park

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group B)
SparkCruise: Handsfree Computation Reuse in Spark
Abhishek Roy, Alekh Jindal, Hiren Patel, Ashit Gosalia, Subru Krishnan, Carlo Curino

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | Santa Anita Room (Research Track Papers)
Towards a Learning Optimizer for Shared Clouds
Chenggang Wu, Alekh Jindal, Saeed Amizadeh, Hiren Patel, Wangchao le, Shi Qiao, Sriram Rao

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | Emerald Bay Room (Research Track Papers)
DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation
Firas Abuzaid, Peter Kraft, Sahaana Suri, Edward Gan, Eric Xu, Atul Shenoy, Asvin Ananthanarayan, John Sheu, Erik Meijer, Xi Wu, Jeff Naughton, Peter D Bailis, Matei Zaharia

Thursday, August 29

11:00 AM–12:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group A)
FishStore: Fast Ingestion and Indexing of Raw Data
Badrish Chandramouli, Dong Xie, Yinan Li, Donald Kossmann

11:00 AM–12:30 PM | Santa Anita Room (Research Track Papers)
Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models
Anshuman Dutt, Chi Wang, Azade Nazi, Srikanth Kandula, Vivek Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri

2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group B)
BlackMagic: Automatic Inlining of Scalar UDFs into SQL Queries with Froid
Karthik Ramachandra, Kwanghyun Park

2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Hollywood Ballroom (Demo Group B)
SparkCruise: Handsfree Computation Reuse in Spark
Abhishek Roy, Alekh Jindal, Hiren Patel, Ashit Gosalia, Subru Krishnan, Carlo Curino

2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Emerald Bay Room (Research Track Papers)
BlockchainDB – A Shared Database on Blockchains (Research Track Papers)
Muhammad El-Hindi, Carsten Binnig, Arvind Arasu, Donald Kossmann, Ravi Ramamurthy

2:00 PM– 3:30 PM | San Francisco Room (Industrial Track Papers)
Experiences with Approximating Queries in Microsoft’s Production Big-Data Clusters
Srikanth Kandula, Kukjin Lee, Surajit Chaudhuri, Marc Friedman

2:00 PM–3:30 PM | San Francisco Room (Industrial Track Papers)
Customizable and Scalable Fuzzy Join for Big Data
Zhimin Chen, Yue Wang, Vivek Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri

4:00 PM–5:30 PM | San Jose Room (Research Track Papers)
Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering (Research Track Papers)
Bailu Ding, Lucja Kot, Johannes Gehrke

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