CMU Database Group

DBSP: Incremental Computation on Streams and Its Applications to Databases

RelationalAl: Systems and theory united against software complexity

Aerospike

Gel: Replacing SQL and Improving on the Relational Database Model (Michael Sullivan)

dbt Labs

MariaDB’s Query Optimizer: A Multi-tool That Does Some Things Differently (Monty Widenius)

Firebolt Transactions

OxQL: Oximeter Query Language from the Oxide Computer Company (Benjamin Naecker)

Apache Pinot / StarTree

StarRocks Query Optimizer (Kaisen Kang)

Evolving Transactions in Oracle 23ai: New Advances in Concurrency and Consistency

ClickHouse

PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language (Tobias Brandt)

Confluent: Leveraging Data StreamingPlatform (DSP) for Analytics & GenAl

Malloy: A Modern Open Source Language for Analyzing, Transforming, and Modeling Data (Lloyd Tabb)

#14 - Query Cost Models: More Cardinality Estimation (CMU Optimize!)

Google's Pipe Syntax in SQL: SQL for the 21st Century (Jeff Shute)

#13 - Query Cost Models: Cardinality Estimation (CMU Optimize!)

Apache Pinot Query Optimizer (Yash Mayya + Gonzalo Ortiz)

#12 - Query Cost Models: Statistics (CMU Optimize!)

The Weaviate Vector Database — Bring AI-native applications to life.

#11 - Unnesting Queries (CMU Optimize!)

Towards Sanity in Query Languages (Viktor Leis + Thomas Neumann)

#10 - Search Parallelization: Top-Down (CMU Optimize!)

Larry Ellison was Right (kinda)! TypeScript Stored Procedures for the Modern Age (James Cowling)

#09 - Search Parallelization: Bottom-up (CMU Optimize!)

#08 - Join Ordering: Top-Down / Transformational (CMU Optimize!)

#07 - Join Ordering: Bottom-up (CMU Optimize!)

#06 - Query Plan Transformations (CMU Optimize!)

#05 - Cascades Query Optimizer (CMU Optimize!)