EDBT
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| EDBT | |
|---|---|
| Name | EDBT |
| Status | active |
| Genre | academic conference |
| Frequency | annual |
| Location | various |
| First | 1998 |
| Organizer | SIGMOD Europe |
EDBT
EDBT is an annual international conference focused on research and development in database and information systems. It brings together researchers, practitioners, and educators from areas such as data management, query processing, information retrieval, and distributed systems. EDBT serves as a forum comparable to events like SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, and WWW for presenting novel ideas, comparing implementations, and fostering collaborations among research labs, industry groups, and funding agencies.
History
EDBT was established in 1998 as a European counterpart to prominent gatherings such as SIGMOD, VLDB, PODS, ICDE, and CIDR. Early editions featured contributors associated with institutions like ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Technical University of Munich, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alongside industry teams from IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Oracle Corporation, SAP, and Siemens. Over time EDBT has evolved in scope and format, interfacing with events such as ECIR, PODS Workshop, WWW Workshop, SIGMOD Workshop, and regional meetings like BPM and EDBT/ICDT joint initiatives. Notable keynote speakers have included researchers affiliated with MIT, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Max Planck Institute, and French National Centre for Scientific Research.
Scope and Topics
EDBT covers a broad range of topics intersecting with database systems and information processing. Core areas include data management topics related to NoSQL, NewSQL, graph databases, columnar storage, query optimization, transaction processing, and indexing methods. It also addresses interdisciplinary themes such as data mining linkage to KDD, machine learning applications akin to work at DeepMind and Google Research, information retrieval methods connected to TREC-style evaluation, and privacy and security concerns paralleling studies at ENISA and NIST. Distributed and cloud-native systems research ties EDBT to efforts by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and research centers like INRIA. Other topics frequently represented include stream processing related to Apache Flink and Apache Kafka, graph processing influenced by Pregel and GraphX, and benchmarking efforts similar to TPC benchmarks and YCSB.
Conferences and Events
Each annual EDBT edition typically comprises keynote talks, research paper presentations, tutorials, demos, posters, and industry tracks. The program often mirrors formats used by SIGMOD and VLDB and includes tutorials given by experts from Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and Princeton University. Special sessions have been co-located with events such as ICDE, WWW, KDD, PODS, and regional meetings like SAC and SEBD. EDBT has been hosted in cities across Europe and beyond, including venues in Athens, Valencia, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, and Copenhagen, attracting attendees from labs and companies such as Facebook Research, Twitter, LinkedIn, Alibaba Group, and Huawei.
Proceedings and Publications
Accepted EDBT papers appear in formal proceedings and digital libraries comparable to publications indexed by ACM Digital Library and Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Proceedings have been archived and cited alongside works from SIGMOD Record, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, VLDB Journal, and conference volumes in Springer. In addition to full papers, EDBT promotes demo papers and extended abstracts; influential contributions have later been expanded into journal submissions to titles such as ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Information Systems, and IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. Workshops and tutorials affiliated with EDBT often generate edited volumes and special issues coordinated with journals like Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
Organization and Sponsors
EDBT organization is typically managed by a program committee and steering committee with ties to SIGMOD Europe and academic societies including ACM and IEEE Computer Society. Local organizing committees are drawn from host universities such as University of Amsterdam, University of Bologna, University College London, and Politecnico di Milano, and partner research centers like CWI, Fraunhofer Society, Max Planck Society, and CNRS. Sponsorship and industry support have come from vendors and cloud providers such as Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Google, Amazon Web Services, and research foundations like European Research Council, Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and national science agencies including EPSRC and DFG.
Awards and Recognition
EDBT confers awards for best paper, best student paper, and best demo, following traditions established at venues like SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and KDD. Previous awardees have included researchers affiliated with universities and labs such as ETH Zurich, University of Washington, University of Toronto, EPFL, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Microsoft Research Cambridge, and IBM Research Zurich. Recognition at EDBT has often propelled work toward later honors such as ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award, VLDB Endowment Awards, and journal best-paper prizes in venues including VLDB Journal and ACM TODS.