With ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference 2026 starting next week and VLDB coming up in August, we have lots of exciting papers to share:

Formats@SIGMOD’26 (Sunday May 31st):

10:15 What No One Tells You About Page Pruning in Parquet: The Real Cost of Page Index Parsing

Faeze Faghih, Si Jun Kwon, Zsolt István

aiDM@SIGMOD’26 (Sunday May 31st):

12:10 EcoLLM: Energy-Aware Benchmarking of LLMs for Data Processing Workloads

Pratyush Agnihotri, Manisha Luthra, Carsten Binnig

13:45 Deal with it! Towards Self-organizing Data Schemas from Semi-Structured Inserts

Benjamin Hättasch, Leon Krüger, Carsten Binnig

SeQureDB@SIGMOD’26 (Sunday May 31st):

14:30 Secure Multi-Party Analytics in the Enterprise Revisited: Opportunities and Challenges

Long Gu, Shaza Zeitouni, Carsten Binnig, Zsolt István

DaMoN@SIGMOD’26 (Monday June 1st):

14:50 How to make Secure Storage fast for DBMSs in Intel SGXv2

Adrian Lutsch, Christian Franck, Muhammad El-Hindi, Norman May, Zsolt István, Carsten Binnig

17:30 Do GPUs Really Need New Tabular File Formats?

Jigao Luo, Qi Chen, Carsten Binnig

https://lnkd.in/gpTw2qQq

17:40 ScaleEvict: Altruistic Eviction for RDMA-Enabled Distributed Storage Engines

Till Steinert, Muhammad El-Hindi, Tobias Ziegler, Viktor Leis, Carsten Binnig

https://lnkd.in/gFEj3D_Q

DBTest@SIGMOD’26 (Friday June 5th):

09:40 Boosting DBMS Test Coverage via LLM-Driven SQL Generation

E. Abdelkarim, Carsten Binnig, Anupam Sanghi

HILDA@SIGMOD’26 (Friday June 5th):

10:00 Towards More Realistic Natural Language Queries in Text-to-SQL Benchmarks

Carsten Binnig

DEEM@SIGMOD’26 (Friday June 5th):

13:30 Keynote: Do we still need Databases in an AI World?

Looking forward to seeing you all at SIGMOD’26 in Bengaluru!

Carsten Binnig