Return to the Boston Area After 50+ Years: What can we learn from VLDB 1975?
Summary: A retrospective on VLDB’s origins, documenting the 2026 “Return to Boston” event and its commemoration of the inaugural 1975 conference. Offers historical perspective on how the database community and conference have evolved over five decades. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Aug 28 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft)
- 2. Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 3. David DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)
- 4. Sebastian Link (University of Auckland)
- 5. Volker Markl (Technical University of Berlin)
- 6. Renée J. Miller (University of Waterloo)
- 7. C. Mohan (Hong Kong Baptist University; Tsinghua University)
- 8. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 9. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
BibTeX Citation
@article{bernstein_vldb26,
title = {{Return to the Boston Area After 50+ Years: What can we learn from VLDB 1975?}},
author = {Bernstein, Philip A. and Chen, Lei and DeWitt, David and Link, Sebastian and Markl, Volker and Miller, Renée J. and Mohan, C. and Stonebraker, Michael and Srivastava, Divesh},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '26},
volume = {19},
number = {12},
pages = {4983--4988},
doi = {10.14778/3827998.3828155},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3827998.3828155},
year = {2026}
}
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 54 | GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine | 1986 | VLDB | 0.00040499302 |
| 3,989 | Beyond Relations: A Case for Elevating to the Entity-Relationship Abstraction | 2025 | CIDR | 6.8703153e-05 |
| 11,106 | Entity/Relationship Graphs: Principled Design, Modeling, and Data Integrity Management of Graph Databases | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,422 | When Entity/Relationship Models Meet Graph Databases | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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