VLDB Best Paper Award winners by year
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VLDB Best Paper Award 2026
Announced Sep 20266 of 6 papers
| Winner | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Garnet: A Next-Generation Cache-Store for Accelerating Applications and ServicesBest Research Paper | Best Research Paper | |
| Scalable GPU Acceleration of Scalar Functions in Analytical Databases: Compilation, Benchmarking, and OptimizationBest Research Paper Honorable Mention | Best Research Paper Honorable Mention | |
| How to Write to SSDsBest Research Paper Honorable Mention | Best Research Paper Honorable Mention | |
| Demystifying and Improving Lazy Promotion in Cache Eviction (EA&B)Best Research Paper Honorable Mention | Best Research Paper Honorable Mention | |
| OmniTable: A Unified Wide-Table System for Petabyte-Scale LLM Data Curation and ExplorationBest Industry Paper | Best Industry Paper | |
| FastCompose: Eliminating Compilation Cold Starts in Query Execution with CompositionBest Industry Paper Honorable Mention | Best Industry Paper Honorable Mention |
About this award
| Edition | Announced | Winners |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Sep 2026 | 6 |
The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Sep); it changes when VLDB Endowment announces one.
| Item | What changed | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | VLDB Best Paper AwardSep 25, 2026 | Next dateSep 2026 to Sep 2027 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | VLDB Best Paper AwardSep 25, 2026 | New winnerAdded |
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