Northwest Database Society (NWDS) Annual Meeting 2023
Location: Hybrid | Redmond, WA
8:00 – 9:00 AM Continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:05 AM Welcome by Meeting Chair, Phil Bernstein (Microsoft Research)
9:05 – 10:15 Keynote by Mark D. Hill, Microsoft Azure and University of Wisconsin-Madison (video (opens in new tab), slides)
10:15 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Database System Engines, Session Chair: Qizhen Zhang (University of Toronto and Microsoft Research)
Tianzheng Wang (Simon Fraser Univ.), How to Get Online Transactional Schema Evolution (Almost) for Free in Snapshot Databases. (video (opens in new tab), slides)
Akshat Vig (AWS), Distributed Transactions @ Scale in Amazon DynamoDB (video (opens in new tab))
Prashanth Purnananda (Microsoft), SQL Server Optimized Locking (video (opens in new tab), slides)
Sarang Masti (Meta), RocksDB Document Store – Optimizing ML Feature Management on ZippyDB (video (opens in new tab))
Jupyung (JP) Lee (Meta), Optimizing DBMS communication: Apache Thrift RPC vs. MySQL RPC (video (opens in new tab), slides)
12:15 – 1:45 PM Lunch (provided) and poster session
1:45 – 3:15 PM Improving Database System Usability, Session Chair: Yeye He (Microsoft Research)
Anna Fariha (Univ. of Utah), Blame the data, not the system: How data profiles can help explain causes of data-system malfunction. (Video (opens in new tab))
Arash Termehchy (Oregon State Univ.), Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data (video (opens in new tab))
Leilani Battle (Univ. of Washington), An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets (video (opens in new tab))
Haoming Chen & Xi Cheng (Google), BQML Large Scale Time Series Forecasting & Anomaly Detection
Ritwik Yadav (Meta), AIM: A Practical Approach to Automated Index Management for SQL databases
3:15 – 3:45 PM, Break
3:45 – 5:35 PM Query Processing Session Chair: Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research)
Cong Yan (Microsoft Research), Predicate Pushdown for Data Science Pipelines
Thibaud Hottelier & Mingge Deng (Google), Unstructured Data in BigQuery
Remy Wang (Univ. of Washington), Free Join: Unifying Worst-Case Optimal and Traditional Joins. (Video (opens in new tab), slides)
Qizhen Zhang (Univ. of Toronto), Templating Shuffles (video (opens in new tab), slides)
Hossein Ahmadi (Snowflake), Snowflake: Building a Data Cloud
Eugene Koblov (Confluent), Serverless Flink SQL (video (opens in new tab))
5:35 – 6:00 PM Discussion and poster session
[last updated May 7, 2023]