Future Data Systems Seminar Series — Fall 2025

Some people want to forget their past like when they worked at a religious pizza parlor in high school and they saw people shoot up in a motel bathtub. Databases are all about recording the events of the past. But we are interested in the question of what should a database system look like in the future to handle more of our past so we never forget.

The Carnegie Mellon University Database Research Group is exploring this question with the Future Data Systems Seminar Series. The talks in this series will present ideas on modern system architectures and technologies for storing, managing, and accessing databases.

All talks are on-line and open to the public via Zoom. You do not need to be a current CMU student to attend. Random people off of the internet are especially welcome. Videos will be posted on the CMU-DB YouTube Channel after each talk.

Schedule

Date Speaker Talk Title Video
Sep 22Iceberg Sep 22 Russell Spitzer An Extremely Technical Overview of how the Apache Iceberg™ Planning Implementation Actually Works
Sep 29Hudi Sep 29 Vinoth Chandar Apache Hudi: A Database Layer over Cloud Storage for Fast Mutations and Efficient Queries
Oct 6MotherDuck Oct 6 Jordan Tigani DuckLake: Learning from Cloud Data Warehouses to Build a Robust “Lakehouse”
Oct 13Vortex Oct 13 Will Manning Vortex: LLVM for File Formats
Oct 20Arrow Oct 20 Ian Cook Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Rows: Columnar Data Connectivity with ADBC
Oct 27SingleStore Oct 27 Joyo Victor Storage Metadata for Modern Cloud Databases
Nov 3Delta Lake Nov 3 Ryan Johnson DeltaLake
Nov 10Mooncake Nov 10 Cheng Chen Mooncake
Nov 17Firebolt Nov 17 Benjamin Wagner Firebolt
Nov 24XTDB Nov 24 Jeremy Taylor Reconstructing History with XTDB
Dec 1Polaris Dec 1 Prashant Singh From Storage Formats to Open Governance: The Evolution to Apache Polaris

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