SIGMOD Research Track Best Papers
LpBound: Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation Using Lp-Norms of Degree Sequences
Haozhe Zhang (University of Zurich); Christoph Mayer (University of Zurich); Mahmoud Abo Khamis (RelationalAI); Dan Olteanu (University of Zurich)*; Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?
Kaisong Huang (Simon Fraser University)*; Jiatang Zhou (Simon Fraser University); Zhuoyue Zhao (University at Buffalo); Dong Xie (Penn State University); Tianzheng Wang (Simon Fraser University)
Honorable Mentions
CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views
Nuno Faria (INESCTEC & U. Minho)*; José Pereira (U. Minho & INESCTEC)
DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering
Mihail Stoian (UTN)*; Andreas Kipf (UTN)
The best paper selection committee members are Amol Desphande (chair), Ashraf Aboulnaga, Jennie Rogers, Oliver Kennedy, and Paolo Papotti.
SIGMOD Industry Track Best Paper
Unlocking the Potential of CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases
Xinjun Yang (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Yingqiang Zhang (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Hao Chen (Alibaba Group), Feifei Li (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Gerry Fan (XConn Technologies), Yang Kong (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Bo Wang (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Jing Fang (Alibaba Cloud Computing),
Yuhui Wang (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Tao Huang (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Wenpu Hu (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Jim Kao (XConn Technologies), Jianping Jiang (XConn Technologies)
ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Carlo Zaniolo, for groundbreaking contributions to database languages and query optimization on complex database models with long-lasting impact on research and industrial application.
SIGMOD Contributions Award (2025)
Hector Munoz-Avila & Sylvia Spengler, for outstanding service to the database community by initiating and supporting research, and for increasing awareness globally about the importance of database innovation.
ACM SIGMOD Test of time award (2025)
K-shape: Efficient and accurate clustering of time series, J Paparrizos, L Gravano - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGMOD, for advancing time-series clustering through a shape-based approach grounded in cross-correlation, achieving a distinctive synthesis of high accuracy, computational efficiency, and broad-domain applicability.
ACM SIGMOD Systems Award (2025)
Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database, ffor reimagining relational data management to enable serializability with external consistency at global scale
Ordered List of contributors to Spanner: James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild, Wilson Hsieh, Sebastian Kanthak, Alexander Lloyd, Sergey Melnik, David Mwaura, Sean Quinlan, Lindsay Rolig, Yasushi Saito, Michal Szymaniak, Christopher Taylor, Ruth Wang, Dale Woodford, David F. Bacon, Shannon Bales, Nico Bruno, Brian F. Cooper, Adam Dickinson, Campbell Fraser, Milind Joshi, Eugene Kogan, Rajesh Rao, David Shue, Marcel van der Holst, Cliff Frey, Damian Reeves, Steve Middlekauff, Mert Akdere, Ben Vandiver, Dan Glick, David Ziegler, Alex Khesin, Dave Weissman, Todd Lipcon, Sean Dorward, Eric Veach
Distinguished AEs
- Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland at College Park
- Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Texas at Arlington
- Boris Glavic, University of Illinois Chicago
- Jennie Rogers, Northwestern University
- Jun Yang, Duke University
- Karima Echihabi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
- Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- Oliver A. Kennedy, University at Buffalo, SUNY
- Paolo Papotti, EURECOM
- Stratos Idreos, Harvard
- Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Northeastern University
Distinguished Reviewers
- Alexander Boehm, SAP SE
- Arijit Khan, Aalborg University
- Bailu Ding, Microsoft Research
- Da Yan, Indiana University Bloomington
- Daichi Amagata, Osaka University
- Dixin Tang, The University of Texas, Austin
- Eliana Pastor, Politecnico di Torino
- Eser Kandogan, Megagon Labs
- Essam Mansour, Concordia University
- Fatemeh Nargesian, University of Rochester
- Francesco Gullo, University of L'Aquila
- Hannes Voigt, Neo4j
- Haridimos Kondylakis, FORTH-ICS & Computer Science Department, University of Crete
- Ibrahim Sabek, University of Southern California
- Jan Van den Bussche, Hasselt University
- Jian Tan, Alibaba
- Kaushik Rajan, Microsoft Research
- Kaustubh Beedkar, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Konstantinos Karanasos, Meta
- Kurt Stockinger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo
- Manos Athanassoulis, Boston University
- Marco Serafini, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Matteo Brucato, Microsoft Research
- Matteo Paganelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Michael Grossniklaus, University of Konstanz
- Milos Nikolic, University of Edinburgh
- Nikolaos Tziavelis, Northeastern University
- Norman May, SAP SE
- Odysseas Papapetrou, TU Eindhoven
- Peter Boncz, CWI
- Rainer Gemulla, Universität Mannheim
- Rebecca Taft, Cockroach Labs
- Sainyam Galhotra, Cornell University
- Sajjadur Rahman, Megagon Labs
- Sebastian Link, University of Auckland
- Stefania Dumbrava, ENSIIE
- Stijn Vansummeren, Hasselt University
- Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft
- Suyash Gupta, University of Oregon
- Tiemo Bang, UC Berkeley
- Ting Yu, Qatar Computing Research Institute
- Tingjian Ge, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- Torsten Grust, Universität Tübingen
- Vasilis Efthymiou, Harokopio University of Athens
- Venkatesh Emani, Microsoft
- Verena Kantere, University of Ottawa
- Vivek Narasayya, Microsoft
- Walid Aref, Purdue
- Xi He, University of Waterloo
- Xiangyao Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Yinan Li, Microsoft Research
- Yuliang Li, Meta
- Ziawasch Abedjan, BIFOLD/TU Berlin
SIGMOD Best Demo
Demo of Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks
Zhaoheng Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Supawit Chockchowwat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Hanxi Fang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Yongjoo Park (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Runner-Ups
Mosaic: An Architecture for Linking Databases and Scalable Interactive Visualizations
Jeffrey Heer (University of Washington); Dominik Moritz (Carnegie Mellon University); Ron Pechunk (University of Washington)
NebulaStream: An extensible, high-performance streaming engine for multi-modal edge applications
Steffen Zeuch (TU Berlin); Adrian Michalke (TU Berlin); Aljoscha Lepping (TU Berlin); Volker Markl (TU Berlin); Ricardo Martinez (TU Berlin); Nils Schubert (TU Berlin); Lukas Schwerdtfeger (TU Berlin); Taha Tekdogan (TU Berlin); Ariane Ziehn (TU Berlin); Christoph Falkensteiner (DHZC); Kyle Krüger (TU Berlin); Tobias Röschl (DHZC); Alexander Meyer (DHZC); Svea Wilkending (DHZC)
Database as Runtime: Compiling LLMs to SQL for In-database Model Serving
Wenbo Sun (Delft University of Technology); Ziyu Li (Delft University of Technology); Riahn Hai (Delft University of Technology)
SIGMOD Best Industry Demo
Prompt Editor: A Taxonomy-driven System for Guided LLM Prompt Development in Enterprise Settings
Jeffery Cao (Celonis Inc.); Lampros Flokas (Celonis Inc.); Yujian Xu (Celonis Inc.); Eugene Wu (Columbia University); Xu Chu (Celonis Inc.); Cong Yu (Celonis Inc.)
