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Motivation

Industrial and scientific datasets have been growing enormously in size and complexity in recent years. The largest transactional databases and data warehouses can no longer be hosted cost-effectively in off-the-shelf commercial database management systems. Non-standard techniques, including layers on top of commercial DBMSes or completely new DBMS development, have been required to enable the storage, processing, and querying of these extremely large databases. There are other forums for discussing very large databases and data warehouses, but they typically deal with problems occurring at smaller scales and do not always focus on practical solutions or influencing DBMS vendors. Given the relatively small (but highly influential and growing) number of users with these databases and the relatively small number of opportunities to exchange practical information related to DBMSes at extremely large scale, a workshop that brings together both users and vendors will be valuable.

Accommodations
You can reserve a room at the Stanford Guest House at the rate of $75. Mention that you are attending this workshop. Book early!
Sponsors
We thank our sponsors:
  • LSST Corporation
  • Yahoo!
Provided funds are used to cover lunch, coffee breaks and part of the dinner cost.