VLDB 2015 and Database Research at Google

Posted by Corinna Cortes, Head of Google Research NY and Cong Yu, Research Scientist

This week, Kohala, Hawaii hosts the 41st International Conference of Very Large Databases (VLDB 2015), a premier annual international forum for data management and database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers and users. As a leader in Database research, Google will have a strong presence at VLDB 2015 with many Googlers publishing work, organizing workshops and presenting demos.

The research Google is presenting at VLDB involves the work of Structured Data teams who are building intelligent and efficient systems to discover, annotate and explore structured data from the Web, surfacing them creatively through Google products (such as structured snippets and table search), as well as engineering efforts that create scalable, reliable, fast and general-purpose infrastructure for large-scale data processing (such as F1, Mesa, and Google Cloud's BigQuery).

If you are attending VLDB 2015, we hope you’ll stop by our booth and chat with our researchers about the projects and opportunities at Google that go into solving interesting problems for billions of people. You can also learn more about our research being presented at VLDB 2015 in the list below (Googlers highlighted in blue).

Google is a Gold Sponsor of VLDB 2015.

Papers:
Keys for Graphs
Wenfei Fan, Zhe Fan, Chao Tian, Xin Luna Dong

In-Memory Performance for Big Data
Goetz Graefe, Haris Volos, Hideaki Kimura, Harumi Kuno, Joseph Tucek, Mark Lillibridge, Alistair Veitch

The Dataflow Model: A Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Massive-Scale, Unbounded, Out-of-Order Data Processing
Tyler Akidau, Robert Bradshaw, Craig Chambers, Slava Chernyak, Rafael Fernández-Moctezuma, Reuven Lax, Sam McVeety, Daniel Mills, Frances Perry, Eric Schmidt, Sam Whittle

Resource Bricolage for Parallel Database Systems
Jiexing Li, Jeffrey Naughton, Rimma Nehme

AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS
Sattam Alsubaiee, Yasser Altowim, Hotham Altwaijry, Alex Behm, Vinayak Borkar, Yingyi Bu, Michael Carey, Inci Cetindil, Madhusudan Cheelangi, Khurram Faraaz, Eugenia Gabrielova, Raman Grover, Zachary Heilbron, Young-Seok Kim, Chen Li, Guangqiang Li, Ji Mahn Ok, Nicola Onose, Pouria Pirzadeh, Vassilis Tsotras, Rares Vernica, Jian Wen, Till Westmann

Knowledge-Based Trust: A Method to Estimate the Trustworthiness of Web Sources
Xin Luna Dong, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Kevin Murphy, Van Dang, Wilko Horn, Camillo Lugaresi, Shaohua Sun, Wei Zhang

Efficient Evaluation of Object-Centric Exploration Queries for Visualization
You Wu, Boulos Harb, Jun Yang, Cong Yu

Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes
Kareem El Gebaly, Parag Agrawal, Lukasz Golab, Flip Korn, Divesh Srivastava

Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations
Artyom Sharov, Alexander Shraer, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely

TreeScope: Finding Structural Anomalies In Semi-Structured Data
Shanshan Ying, Flip Korn, Barna Saha, Divesh Srivastava

Workshops:
Workshop on Big-Graphs Online Querying - Big-O(Q) 2015
Workshop co-chair: Cong Yu

3rd International Workshop on In-Memory Data Management and Analytics
Program committee includes: Sandeep Tata

High-Availability at Massive Scale: Building Google's Data Infrastructure for Ads
Invited talk at BIRTE by: Ashish Gupta, Jeff Shute

Demonstrations:
KATARA: Reliable Data Cleaning with Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing
Xu Chu, John Morcos, Ihab Ilyas, Mourad Ouzzani, Paolo Papotti, Nan Tang, Yin Ye

Error Diagnosis and Data Profiling with Data X-Ray
Xiaolan Wang, Mary Feng, Yue Wang, Xin Luna Dong, Alexandra Meliou