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I wish I could attend VLDB 2009 next week, the more so as it’s organized in such a nice place in France, so close to Poland. However, there were too many things happening around Infobright’s Release 3.2 to get prepared for the conference. Of course I’m not complaining, because it was a lot of fun to put so much innovation into the architecture of the new version. On the other hand, I will be looking forward to the new VLDB papers available in DBLP and I’ll try to catch up with the reading as soon as possible.

As for now, I’m looking at the conference program and I can see many familiar topics. I will miss the cloud keynote by Raghu Ramakrishnan, a kind of continuation of his ICDE 2009 talk. This is one of the examples of a growing importance of the cloud among the database researchers and practitioners.

Some of the VLDB 2009 papers have become popular even before the conference. For example, take a look at the last paper in Research Session 26. The paper can be downloaded from the homepage of the HadoopDB project. I like it, although I keep thinking whether shared-nothing is really the only way to go when attempting to leverage benefits of Hadoop and analogous frameworks. As the authors mention in Introduction, parallel databases are not necessarily shared-nothing. The authors mention Exadata as a (partial) counterexample (see the footnotes on page 1). Moreover, even in the realm of MapReduce we have such approaches as, for example, Phoenix. So, as usual, there is more analysis ahead…

Best greetings,

Dominik

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