Systems Group @ VLDB 2026! We will present 5 conference papers, 4 workshop papers, and 1 demo, from generating bespoke OLAP engines with LLMs to distributed GPU query processing with PyTorch. Full schedule below:

Monday:

- DoubleAgent: Towards Text-to-SQL on Enterprise Databases

Fares Elkholy, Timo Eckmann, Jan-Micha Bodensohn, Isaiah Onando Mulang', Carsten Binnig

8:45-10:15, NOVAS Workshop, Grand Ballroom E

- Bespoke-Card: Why Tune When You Can Generate? Synthesizing Workload-Specific Cardinality Estimators

Johannes Wehrstein, Anton Winter, Timo Eckmann, Carsten Binnig

10:45-12:15, AIDB Workshop, Commonwealth Ballroom A

- Selectivity Estimation for Semantic Filters on Image Data

Matthias Urban, Vu Huy Nguyen, Gabriele Sanmartino, Paolo Papotti, Carsten Binnig

13:45-15:15, AIDB Workshop, Commonwealth Ballroom A

Tuesday:

- Bespoke OLAP: Synthesizing Workload-Specific One-size-fits-one Database Engines

Johannes Wehrstein, Timo Eckmann, Matthias Jasny, Carsten Binnig

10:45-12:15, Research 2 · Cloud-Native Data Systems, Grand Ballroom D

- Redbench: Workload Synthesis From Cloud Traces

Johannes Wehrstein, Dr. Roman Heinrich Heinrich, Mihail Stoian, Skander Krid, Martin Stemmer, Andreas Kipf, Carsten Binnig, Muhammad El-Hindi

10:45-12:15, Research 2 · Cloud-Native Data Systems, Grand Ballroom D

- Unveiling Challenges for LLMs in Enterprise Data Engineering

Jan-Micha Bodensohn, Ulf Brackmann, Liane Vogel, Anupam Sanghi, Carsten Binnig

15:45-17:15, Research 13 · LLMs for Data Engineering, Grand Ballroom E

- Demonstrating Samsara: A Super-Optimizer for Multimodal Stream Processing

Alessandro Ferri, Uelison Jean Lopes dos Santos, Szilard Nistor, Pratyush Agnihotri, Manisha Luthra, Carsten Binnig

Tue 13:45-15:15 & Wed 15:45-17:15, Demo Group A · Graph, Systems & Infrastructure, Marina Ballrooms II–IV

Wednesday:

- High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to Use It

Matthias Jasny, Muhammad El-Hindi, Tobias Ziegler, Viktor Leis, Carsten Binnig

10:45-12:15, Research 21 · Data Systems on Modern Hardware, Grand Ballroom C

- PystachIO: Efficient Distributed GPU Query Processing with PyTorch over Fast Networks & Fast Storage

Jigao Luo, Nils Boeschen, Muhammad El-Hindi, Carsten Binnig

13:45-15:15, Research 27 · GPU-Accelerated Query Processing, Grand Ballroom C

Thursday:

- Data Agents: Rethinking Data Systems in the AI Agent Era

10:45-12:15, Panel 3, Grand Ballroom A+B

Friday:

- TEmBed-T: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Table-Level Embeddings

Ayeen Poostforoushan, Liane Vogel, Carsten Binnig

8:45-10:15, TaDA Workshop, Grand Ballroom D