Thoughts on the State of the DB Community by Sam Madden

Sam Madden from MIT CSAIL shares insights on community conferences, advocating for single-track events to enhance the attendee experience and increase paper impact. He suggests creating a prestigious super conference with high-quality papers from the entire community, similar to CIDR but with better content quality.

• Community conferences
• Single-track
• Paper impact
• Super conference
• MIT CSAIL

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1. Thoughts on the State of the DB Community Sam Madden madden@csail.mit.edu

2. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

3. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

4. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example Much higher impact per paper * SOSP (56 cites per paper) is 2x SIGMOD (26 cites per paper MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

5. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example Much higher impact per paper * SOSP (56 cites per paper) is 2x SIGMOD (26 cites per paper Top authors have 1/3rd the pubs (Liskov = 13 SOSP+OSDI) http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-systems-top-50.html MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

6. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example Much higher impact per paper * SOSP (56 cites per paper) is 2x SIGMOD (26 cites per paper Top authors have 1/3rd the pubs (Liskov = 13 SOSP+OSDI) http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-systems-top-50.html Proposal: create a super conference ; single track, where it is an honor to present, that every one wants to attend. MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

7. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example Much higher impact per paper * SOSP (56 cites per paper) is 2x SIGMOD (26 cites per paper Top authors have 1/3rd the pubs (Liskov = 13 SOSP+OSDI) http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-systems-top-50.html Proposal: create a super conference ; single track, where it is an honor to present, that every one wants to attend. Think CIDR but where the papers are actually good And from the whole community MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

8. Thoughts on Research Big Data continues to lead CS By defining databases as relational data management systems , we lose out We can do better at getting general data intensive computing folks to participate in our community A good database paper shouldn t have to be full of psuedomath SOCC is on the right track, but cloud computing isn t hip anymore MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY