VLDB 2010 proceedings are online

The conference proceedings from last month's VLDB 2010 conference in Singapore are now online. In particular, you can find the published research papers here.

This conference is the most important annual conference in the database field, a field which has become so sophisticated and mature that the research work was sub-divided into three dozen separate sub-areas.

Although there was much of interest to me in these proceedings, and hopefully I'll find more time to dig through them in greater detail, from my long-standing background in storage systems I immediately latched on to several of the topics discussed in Session 20, Session 29, and Session 37:

Session 20: Databases on Modern Hardware

p.660: Complex Event Detection at Wire Speed with FPGAs
Louis Woods (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland), Jens Teubner (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland), Gustavo Alonso (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland)

p.670: Database Compression on Graphics Processors
Wenbin Fang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China), Bingsheng He (Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore), Qiong Luo (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China)

p.681: Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging
Ryan Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America), Ippokratis Pandis (Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America), Radu Stoica (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Manos Athanassoulis (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Anastasia Ailamaki (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Session 29: Workflows, Transactions and Business Processes

p.928: Data-Oriented Transaction Execution
Ippokratis Pandis (Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America), Ryan Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America), Nikos Hardavellas (Northwestern University, United States of America), Anastasia Ailamaki (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Session 37: Indexing Techniques
p.1195: Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives
Yinan Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America), Bingsheng He (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China), Robin Jun Yang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China), Qiong Luo (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China), Ke Yi (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China)

p.1207: Efficient B-tree Based Indexing for Cloud Data Processing
Sai Wu (National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore), Dawei Jiang (National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore), Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore), Kun-Lung Wu (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, United States of America)

If, like me, you're endlessly fascinated by database system internals, you'll undoubtedly find much to read in these proceedings. Enjoy!