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Sirius: A GPU-Native SQL Engine (Xiangyao Yu)

CMU Database Group Apr 28, 2026 Updated May 6, 2026

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Introduction to Floe (Kurt Westerfeld)

CMU Database Group Apr 21, 2026 Updated May 5, 2026

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VillageSQL: Decisions, Principles, & Lessons in Teaching MySQL New Tricks (Steve Schirripa)

CMU Database Group Apr 21, 2026 Updated Apr 24, 2026

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Floe: A SQL Compute Service for the Data Lakehouse (Kurt Westerfeld + Mark Cusack)

CMU Database Group Apr 15, 2026 Updated May 5, 2026

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Multigres: Bringing Horizontal Scaling and Enterprise Operations to PostgreSQL (Sugu Sougoumarane)

CMU Database Group Apr 14, 2026 Updated Apr 16, 2026

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Introduction to ClickHouse's Data Storage Architecture (George Larionov)

CMU Database Group Apr 12, 2026 Updated Apr 18, 2026

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SpacetimeDB → Inverting the Backend: Why We Built our MMORPG Inside a Database (Tyler Cloutier)

CMU Database Group Apr 7, 2026 Updated May 5, 2026

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SpiralDB: Building a Machine-scale Database (Will Manning)

CMU Database Group Apr 3, 2026 Updated May 3, 2026

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Pixeltable: A DBMS for Multimodal AI Applications (Marcel Kornacker)

CMU Database Group Mar 31, 2026 Updated May 1, 2026

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RelationalAI: Efficient Iterative and Recursive Computations Inside Databases (Amir Shaikhha)

CMU Database Group Mar 26, 2026 Updated May 5, 2026

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TonicDB: Databases without an OS? Meet QuinineHM (Filip Obradovic)

CMU Database Group Mar 24, 2026 Updated Apr 30, 2026

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Firebolt: Modern Shuffle @ 100 GBit/second (Mosha Pasumansky)

CMU Database Group Mar 20, 2026 Updated Apr 19, 2026

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YugabyteDB: Distributed PostgreSQL for Modern Apps (Hari Krishna Sunder)

CMU Database Group Mar 17, 2026 Updated May 5, 2026

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turbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for Search (Simon Eskildsen)

CMU Database Group Mar 10, 2026 Updated May 4, 2026

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Chronon – Mixed-workload Data Processing Framework (Nikhil Simha)

CMU Database Group Feb 25, 2026 Updated Mar 27, 2026

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