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Trends

Long-term publication and citation trends across SIGMOD, VLDB, CIDR, and PODS.

Papers per Year by Venue

Average Outgoing Citations per Paper by Year

CDF of Paper Counts per Author

Top Papers by Citation Velocity

The top 20 papers by "citation velocity," the number of non-self citations to a paper divided by the number of years since the paper was published.

Velocity Rank Paper Year Venue Citation Velocity Total Citations Paper Rank
1 How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2016 VLDB 27 277 71
2 Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 24 171 204
2 Text-to-SQL Empowered by Large Language Models: A Benchmark Evaluation 2024 VLDB 24 48 369
4 The Case for Learned Index Structures 2018 SIGMOD 22 183 102
5 Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer 2019 VLDB 20 146 333
6 DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries! 2020 VLDB 19 116 608
6 Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical 2021 SIGMOD 19 99 640
8 DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database 2019 SIGMOD 18 126 185
8 Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing 2025 CIDR 18 18 2,106
8 LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency 2025 VLDB 18 18 3,472
11 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 17 189 66
11 NeuroCard: One Cardinality Estimator for All Tables 2021 VLDB 17 89 910
11 Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data? 2023 VLDB 17 53 517
14 Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation 2020 VLDB 16 96 758
14 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 16 84 221
14 RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 16 33 2,324
14 DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing 2025 VLDB 16 16 1,963
18 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 15 154 167
18 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 15 111 212
18 TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database 2020 VLDB 15 95 488