Latest news:

• The Final Report from the workshop is available for download. It will be published in the Data Science Journal.
• Presentation slides (as permitted) can be found on the Program page
• Photos have been published, see conference photos, workshop photos
• Information about this year's souvenir can be found in this article on beam trees
• The report from the XLDB4 workshop should be ready in December

The XLDB series of workshops attacks the challenges of building extremely large databases. As the need for such databases and their supporting standards and tools is exploding in both science and industry we are introducing an open XLDB conference, in addition to our "standard," limited attendance workshop. The main goals of the conference are:

• Encourage and accelerate the exchange of ideas between users trying to build extremely large databases worldwide and database solution providers
• Share the lessons, trends, innovations, and challenges related to building extremely large databases
• Facilitate the development and growth of practical technologies for extremely large databases
• Strengthen, expand, and engage the XLDB community