[Andy at Sea] Does Systems Engineering Matter Anymore? CANCELLED

Speaker:

David Cramer

System:

Sentry

Let’s dive into what software engineering looks like at a modern infrastructure company today, what challenges we have as engineers in this new era of software, and why systems engineering still matters. This will be a casual conversation around how Sentry - a pre-GPT company - looks at building their own engineering tools to leverage AI for code generation. We’ll... Read More

[Andy at Sea] Everything Has Bugs. Here’s How Antithesis Catches Them.

Speaker:

Marco Primi

System:

Antithesis

Video:

YouTube

Programs used to run on a single computer start to end. Today nearly all software is part of a larger distributed system. Databases were among the earliest to undergo this transition at the turn of the century, replication, fault-tolerance, consensus, scalability were the hot topics of the early cloud era, and they are still relevant today more than ever. The... Read More

[Andy at Sea] Apache Doris: Real-Time Analytics and Search Database for AI Agents

Speaker:

Owen Xiao

System:

Doris

Video:

YouTube

Apache Doris is a real-time analytical and search database built for sub-second, high-concurrency queries over fresh data and data lakes. It has been widely used for customer-facing analytics, data warehousing, and observability. As AI agents move from prototype to production, we see two new categories of workload for analytical databases: Agentic Analytics, where agents autonomously query and explore data on... Read More

Industry Affiliates Program Visit 2026 – Day 2

The second day of Carnegie Mellon University's Database Industry Affiliate Program (IAP) Visit Day, held in the Gates-Hillman Center, shifts focus to the industry side, featuring a series of informative sessions presented by member companies. These sessions offer companies the opportunity to showcase their latest innovations, products, and challenges in the database space, while also highlighting potential career opportunities for... Read More

Industry Affiliates Program Visit 2026 – Day 1

The first day of Carnegie Mellon University's Database Industry Affiliate Program (IAP) Visit Day takes place in the Gates-Hillman Center and is focused on showcasing cutting-edge research in the field of databases. The day is filled with a series of research talks delivered by faculty and students from the university's database group. These presentations provide an in-depth look at the... Read More

[Fall 2026] Bridging the Gap Between HTAP and Lakehouses for Analytics on Fresh Data

Speaker:

Nuno Faria

There has been a growing interest in systems that combine analytical performance with some form of transactions to support ever more frequent updates. On the one hand, hybrid transactional analytical processing (HTAP) systems support fine grained updates at the expense of using custom data formats and processing engines or of fully replicating data between transactional and analytical subsystems, thus limiting... Read More

Why We Created Yet Another Memory Framework: Understanding MGA’s Role in Next-Gen Database Systems

Speakers:

Vikramraj Sitpal , Shubham Kumar

System:

Oracle

Modern database engines already provide multiple memory areas, but under production constraints they often force a difficult choice: use globally shared memory (such as the SGA), with coarse visibility and lifecycle semantics, or use private process memory (such as the PGA), with stronger isolation but more copying, fragmentation, and indirect coordination when state must be shared selectively. This talk presents... Read More

Sirius: A GPU-Native SQL Engine (Xiangyao Yu)

Speaker:

Xiangyao Yu

System:

Sirius

Video:

YouTube

GPUs have evolved into powerful, cost-efficient engines for general-purpose parallel compute. This talk introduces Sirius, a GPU-native SQL engine developed in partnership between UW-Madison and NVIDIA. Sirius enables drop-in GPU acceleration for DuckDB and other SQL databases, without changing the user interface. By treating the GPU as the primary execution engine, Sirius achieves strong performance by leveraging the massive compute... Read More

The Extensibility Tax: Decisions, Principles, and Lessons from a Year of Teaching MySQL New Tricks (Steve Schirripa)

Speaker:

Steve Schirripa

System:

VillageSQL

Video:

YouTube

What does it take to add custom data types and indexes to a database that was never designed for them? Over the past year, we built an extensibility framework for MySQL — and discovered, one by one, every place the codebase assumes it knows all the types that will ever exist. This talk walks through the design decisions that survived... Read More

Floe: A SQL Query Service for the Modern Data Lakehouse (Kurt Westerfeld + Mark Cusack)

Speakers:

Kurt Westerfeld , Mark Cusack

System:

Floe

Video:

YouTube

We present Floe, a SQL query service designed for modern data lakehouse architectures. Floe combines three core components: FloeSQL, a compute engine for executing sophisticated SQL over open table formats; Floecat, an open-source catalog-of-catalogs that unifies metadata across Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake ecosystems; and Floescan, an indexing service that enables fine-grained data skipping within Parquet files. Floe is motivated... Read More