VLDB 2026: Accepted Tutorials

Title Authors
Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Databases: Building Next-Generation Query Engines Using Ray Tracing Cores Rubao Lee; Liang Geng; Xiaodong Zhang
Bridging LLMs and Database Systems: A Deep Dive into Enhanced Relational Operators Tianjing Zeng; Yin Lin; Rong Zhu; Yunxiang Su; Zhongjun Ding; Bolin Ding; Jingren Zhou
Are We There Yet? A Grand Tour of ETA Queries Areeg Mostafa; Mohamed Hemdan; Mohamed Mokbel
From Human-Graph to Agent-Graph Interaction: State of the Art and Future Directions Sourav S Bhowmick; Byron Choi; Arijit Khan
Instance-Optimal Acyclic Joins: From Theory to Systems Paraschos Koutris; Stijn Vansummeren; Qichen Wang; Yisu Remy Wang; Xiangyao Yu
Data Management for Agentic Memory: Foundations, Systems, and Challenges Guoliang Li; Jiaqi Tian; Xuanhe Zhou
Advances of Query Processing in Vector Databases Jiadong Xie; Yingfan Liu; Jeffrey Xu Yu
Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Applications, Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities Angela Bonifati; Yixiang Fang; Sibo Wang; Yingli Zhou
How Can Quantum Computing and Databases Meet "in Practice"? From Algorithms to Systems Hanwen Liu; Yiran Li; Ibrahim Sabek; Xuanhe Zhou; Hans-Arno Jacobsen
Interoperability in Healthcare: A Primer and New Frontiers Andra Ionescu; Paris Carbone; Sebastiaan Meijer; Christos Koutras; Juliana Freire; Katja Hose; Jayanth Raghothama
Graph Foundation Models: State of the Art and Future Directions Alexander Zhou; Haoyang Li; Lei Chen
CRDTs and Databases: A Hands-On Tutorial Paulo Sérgio Almeida; Nuno Faria; José Pereira
Private LLM Inference with Homomorphic Encryption Lawrence Lim; Divyakant Agrawal; Amr El Abbadi
An Extended Tutorial and Vocabulary for Relational Language Design in an Era of AI-Assisted Query Generation Wolfgang Gatterbauer
From Big Time Series Forecasting to Foundation Models for Structured Data Xiyuan Zhang; Abdul Fatir Ansari; Christos Faloutsos; George Karypis; Yuyang Wang