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	28	280	71
2	Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning	2019	CIDR	24	172	203
2	Text-to-SQL Empowered by Large Language Models: A Benchmark Evaluation	2024	VLDB	24	49	366
4	The Case for Learned Index Structures	2018	SIGMOD	22	183	101
5	Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer	2019	VLDB	21	147	329
6	Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical	2021	SIGMOD	20	100	634
7	DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries!	2020	VLDB	19	116	606
7	Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing	2025	CIDR	19	19	2,013
9	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	18	126	185
9	DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing	2025	VLDB	18	18	1,839
9	LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency	2025	VLDB	18	18	3,465
12	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	17	189	66
12	NeuroCard: One Cardinality Estimator for All Tables	2021	VLDB	17	89	905
12	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	17	85	219
12	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	17	53	516
12	RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2024	SIGMOD	17	34	2,287
17	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	16	112	210
17	Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation	2020	VLDB	16	97	752
19	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	15	155	167
19	Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	15	135	183