Program

Organizers:

Website:

  • Andreas Zimmerer, UTN, andreas.zHIDDEN JUNKimmererHIDDEN JUNK@uHIDDEN JUNKtn.de

Local Arrangements:

  • Andrea Smith, UTN, andrea.sHIDDEN JUNKmithHIDDEN JUNK@uHIDDEN JUNKtn.de
  • Corinna Dannewitz, UTN, corinna.dHIDDEN JUNKannewitzHIDDEN JUNK@uHIDDEN JUNKtn.de
  • Varun Pandey, UTN, varun.pHIDDEN JUNKandeyHIDDEN JUNK@uHIDDEN JUNKtn.de


Time Type Title & Speakers
8:30 - 9:00 Arrival & Welcome Coffee
9:00 - 9:05 Opening Remarks
9:05 - 10:00 Keynote Invited Keynote by Peter Boncz (CWI): Diving into the DuckLake
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Presentations Session 1: Data Systems

Constantin Pestka (LMU): Opportunities of RCU-based Synchronization for Database Indices

Dimitrios Giouroukis (BIFOLD, TU Berlin): Analyzing Near-Network Hardware Acceleration with Co-Processing on DPUs

Lorenz Hübschle (Firebolt): Low-Latency Analytics on Apache Iceberg

Mihail Stoian (University of Technology Nuremberg): Instance-Optimized String Fingerprints

Ankit Chaudhary (TU Berlin): Optimizing Continuous Queries in the Edge-Cloud Continuum

Kevin Gaffney, Tiemo Bang (Gray Systems Lab, Azure Data, Microsoft): Invent With Purpose: R&D at Azure Data

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30 Presentations Session 2: Benchmarking

Tobias Schmidt (Technische Universität München): SQLStorm: Taking Database Benchmarking into the LLM Era

Jan Vincent Szlan (University of Cambridge, Snowflake): Workload Insights From The Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like?

Dominik Horn (AWS): Why TPC Is Not Enough: An Analysis of the Amazon Redshift Fleet

Luka Leko (JKU/Dynatrace Co-Innovation Lab, LIT CPS Lab): Benchmarking Pattern Matching Strategies for Scalable Log Analytics

Andreas Zimmerer (University of Technology Nuremberg): Are Semantic Operators Worth It? Benchmarking Databases in the LLM Era

Dominik Durner (CedarDB): What It Takes to Bring a Research System Into Production Workloads

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:30 Presentations Session 3: DB Languages & Query Optimization

Wim Martens (University of Bayreuth): Rel: A Programming Language for Relational Data

Maximilian Schüle (University of Bamberg): Higher-Order SQL Lambda Functions

Pascal Pfeil (AWS): Engineering Better Baselines: Optimizing Classical Sketching Algorithms

Christoph Mayer (University of Zurich): Practical Information-Theoretic Cardinality Estimation with Upper Bound Guarantees

Felix Weiß, Oliver Layer (Celonis): A Query Language and Engine Designed for Process Intelligence

Adriano Vogel (Dynatrace): Innovating at Scale: Research at Dynatrace

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:55 Keynote Invited Keynote by Maribel Acosta (TUM): Learning to Optimize: ML for Query Processing over Knowledge Graphs
17:55 - 18:00 Closing Remarks
18:30 - 21:00 Dinner at Tucher Mautkeller