Future-Proof Data Systems

Summary: Frames future-proof DBMS design as abstraction-boundary engineering: separate evolving workloads, representations, and hardware while retaining optimizer-visible structure. Sortledton, AnyBlox, and LingoDB validate this across data structures, formats, and query compilation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 28 2026)

Paper ID: h36b8de6376b564da
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.9605343e-05
Overall Rank: 11,107 | 25.55%
DOI: 10.14778/3827998.3838711
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Authors

1. Jana Giceva (Technical University of Munich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{giceva_vldb26,
        title = {{Future-Proof Data Systems}},
        author = {Giceva, Jana},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {12},
        pages = {4965--4972},
        doi = {10.14778/3827998.3838711},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3827998.3838711},
        year = {2026}
}

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21	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00056737487
23	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00055523999
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049063803
71	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00037688945
235	The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing	2018	VLDB	0.00023701614
375	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00019660459
462	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017825062
850	Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores	2013	VLDB	0.00013450864
896	Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database	2018	VLDB	0.00013164545
1,415	Velox: Meta's Unified Execution Engine	2022	VLDB	0.00010707308
1,879	Real-Time Twitter Recommendation: Online Motif Detection in Large Dynamic Graphs	2014	VLDB	9.4293777e-05
2,044	Teseo and the Analysis of Structural Dynamic Graphs	2021	VLDB	9.1246306e-05
2,258	Evaluating End-to-End Optimization for Data Analytics Applications in Weld	2018	VLDB	8.7387151e-05
2,464	Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes	2022	VLDB	8.4081954e-05
2,977	Sortledton: a Universal, Transactional Graph Data Structure	2022	VLDB	7.7781129e-05
3,111	Micro Adaptivity in Vectorwise	2013	SIGMOD	7.6224912e-05
3,190	One WITH RECURSIVE is Worth Many GOTOs	2021	SIGMOD	7.5364422e-05
3,997	Designing an Open Framework for Query Optimization and Compilation	2022	VLDB	6.850379e-05
4,095	Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine	2024	SIGMOD	6.7952274e-05
4,195	GraphJet: Real-Time Content Recommendations at Twitter	2016	VLDB	6.7324627e-05
4,210	Adaptive Work Placement for Query Processing on Heterogeneous Computing Resources	2017	VLDB	6.7206837e-05
5,787	Database Technology for the Masses: Sub-Operators as First-Class Entities	2021	VLDB	5.9768075e-05
5,795	The Tensor Data Platform: Towards an AI-centric Database System	2023	CIDR	5.9755414e-05
6,305	Declarative Sub-Operators for Universal Data Processing	2023	VLDB	5.8008469e-05
6,571	Maximus: A Modular Accelerated Query Engine for Data Analytics on Heterogeneous Systems	2025	SIGMOD	5.7278348e-05
7,983	Excalibur: A Virtual Machine for Adaptive Fine-grained JIT-Compiled Query Execution based on VOILA	2023	VLDB	5.3962907e-05
9,383	Evaluating Query Languages and Systems for High-Energy Physics Data	2022	VLDB	5.1703127e-05
10,166	End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure	2026	CIDR	5.0559291e-05
10,287	AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets	2025	VLDB	5.0328754e-05
11,404	Towards Designing Future-Proof Data Processing Systems	2025	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,597	High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance	2024	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

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