CMU Database Group

Prof. Andy Pavlo Wins the 2026 IEEE TCDE (@icdeconf) Ramez Elmasri Outstanding Database Education Award: db.cs.cmu.edu/2026/05/prof-a…

I'm joining Carnegie Mellon's CS Department (and HCII by courtesy) as an assistant professor in Fall 2027! I'll be recruiting PhD students next cycle. If you're interested in AI systems or human-AI collaboration, list me in your application. Stay tuned for more about my new lab!

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Dr. Xiangyao Yu (@xiangyao_yu) will present the architecture of the @siriusgpudb GPU-native database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Steve Schirripa (MSE'00) will present how @VillageSQL is injecting new life into @MySQL via extensions. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: The Great Sugu Sougoumarane (@ssougou) from @supabase will present the architecture of @multigres horizontal sharding system for Postgres. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: @TylerFCloutier will explain why and how they embedded a MMORPG game engine inside of a custom database system (@spacetime_db). Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Dr. Marcel Kornacker will present the design & implementation of Pixeltable (@pixeltablehq), a multi-modal DBMS based on @PostgreSQL. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Thanks to @googlecloud's BigTable for providing prizes to the top 3 @CMUDB students with the fastest project implementations in our Intro DB Systems course this semester! They have to implement a buffer pool, B+Tree, query executors, and MVCC in BusTub. Non-CMU students can also test their code via Gradescope (no prizes though): #q7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2026/faq…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Filip Obradovic (@filipobrad) will present the wild architecture of @datawarecorp TonicDB. It runs directly on hardware via a unikernel. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Hari Krishna Sunder will present the architecture of the @Yugabyte distributed DBMS based on Postgres. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Simon Eskildsen (@Sirupsen) will present the architecture of the @turbopuffer search engine. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Adam Prout (@a_prout) will present the architecture of the newly released Microsoft Azure HorizonDB. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Marek Galovic will present the TopK (@topk_io) document + vector search engine system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: @MarcJBrooker will present the architecture of Amazon's Aurora DSQL (Postgres-compatible serverless OLTP DBMS). Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Tyler Akidau (@takidau) + Adam Symanski will present the architecture of the @oxla_database OLAP system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jark Wu from @alibaba_cloud will finish off this semester with an overview of Apache Fluss. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/future-…

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Prashant Singh from @Snowflake will present the @ApachePolaris re-implementation of the @ApacheIceberg REST catalog API. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futured…

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jeremy Taylor (@refset) will present the architecture of @juxtpro's XTDB (@xtdb_com) time-traveling database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futured…

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Benjamin Wagner🇩🇪 will present @FireboltHQ's native support for low-latency queries on @ApacheIceberg tables. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/future-…

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Cheng Chen will present how @mooncakelabs extends PostgreSQL to support @ApacheIceberg. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futured…