Ontario DataBase Day

December 12, 2024
University of Waterloo,
Davis Centre (DC 1302), 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1

The Ontario DataBase Day (OnDBD) is a one-day symposium that will bring together the database and data-focused research community of Ontario. OnDBD will provide an opportunity for junior and senior researchers from Ontario to present their recent work and learn about the wide variety of topics our research community is working on. Hence, OnDBD is an excellent opportunity to meet up with your local colleagues (including new students and faculty) and to foster new local research collaborations.

The second edition of OnDBD is organized by Sujaya Maiyya and Jelle Hellings, is sponsered by SAP Canada, and will be hosted by the Data Systems Group of the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

Program

The preliminary full program can be downloaded here. The high-level preliminary program looks as follows:

Start Time	End Time	Description
08:45	09:15	Registration Open
09:15	09:30	Welcome/Opening
09:30	10:45	Session 1 (4 talks)
10:45	11:15	Coffee break
11:15	12:30	Session 2 (4 talks)
12:30	13:30	Lunch
13:30	14:45	Session 3 (4 talks)
14:45	15:45	Poster presentation and Coffee break
15:45	17:00	Session 4 (4 talks)
17:00	18:30	Reception

Below is the break-down of the individual talks:

Start Time	End Time	Talk Information
09:30	09:48	Multiquery Optimization for Declarative Compilers (slides)
		Darshana Balakrishnan¹, Oliver Kennedy², Lukasz Ziarek², Johannes Luong¹, Hinnerk Gildhof¹, and Gaurav Saxenam¹, ¹Amazon and ²University at Buffalo
09:49	10:07	Towards Efficient and Reliable Video Query Systems
		Daren Chao, University of Toronto
10:08	10:26	Dispersed Replication to Eliminate the Primary Bottleneck in Primary-Backup Consensus
		Nancy Kansal and Jelle Hellings, McMaster University
10:27	10:45	Predicting Memory Demand for a Batch of Queries
		Ghadeer Abuoda, York University
11:15	11:33	Asymmetric Linearizable Local Reads
		Myles Thiessen, University of Toronto
11:34	11:52	ClientBFT: Enabling Fast Eventually-Consistent Resilient Systems
		Celine Sana and Jelle Hellings, McMaster University
11:53	12:11	Eventual Durability of ACID Transactions in Distributed Database Systems
		Joseph Boulis, Sujaya Maiyya, and Ken Salem, University of Waterloo
12:12	12:30	QueryBridge: The Largest and First Annotated Dataset for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
		Abdelghny Orogat and Ahmed El-Roby, Carleton University
13:30	13:48	An Improved Fully Dynamic Algorithm for Counting 4-Cycles in General Graphs
		Vihan Shah, University of Waterloo
13:49	14:07	Transforming Text-to-SQL Datasets into Closed-Domain NER Benchmark
		Zikun Fu¹, Chen Yang², Heidar Davoudi¹, and Ken Pu¹, ¹Ontario Tech University and ²Northeastern University
14:08	14:26	Redefining Data Dependencies: Enhancing Attribute Relationships for Today's Data Challenges
		Nishttha Sharma, McMaster University
14:27	14:45	DDS: DPU-optimized Disaggregated Storage
		Jiasheng Hu, University of Toronto
		Quantum-Resistant Blockchain Solutions in Hyperledger Fabric: Securing Data in a Decentralized World
		Ajmery Sultana and Shahroz Abbas, Algoma University
		Towards Anomaly Detection in the Presence of Data Drift
		Jongjun Park, McMaster University
		GaussDB: Driving Innovation in Cloud-Native Database Technologies
		Ronen Grosman, Tianqing Wang, and Puya Memarzia, Huawei
		On-Disk Datalog Engine using Semirings
		Nick Brown and Oliver Kennedy, University at Buffalo
		Embedding The Context of Attributes in Longitudinal Study Schemas To Refine Their Semantic Match Candidates
		Pratik Pokharel and Oliver Kennedy, University at Buffalo
		Electrifying Urban Mobility: An Analysis of EV Impact on Daily Travel Patterns
		Omid Isfahani Alamdari
		A Unified Comparison of Hardware Acceleration for Relational Data Analytics
		Alireza Shateri, University of Toronto
		Multi SQL dialect framework in GaussDB
		Danny Chen, Yang Sun, and Jun Tang, Cloud BU, Huawei Canada
		Memento Filter: A Fast, Dynamic, and Robust Range Filter
		Navid Eslami, University of Toronto
15:45	16:03	Enabling new database services with a disaggregated storage
		Chong Chen and Alex Depoutovitch, Huawei Research Canada
16:04	16:22	Privacy and Security in Distributed Graph Analytics: Secure Distributed k-Core Decomposition
		Bin Guo, Trent University
16:23	16:41	Falcon: Live Reconfiguration for Stateful Stream Processing on the Edge (slides)
		Pritish Mishra, University of Toronto
16:42	17:00	Updatable Extracted Views
		Besat Kassaie, University of Waterloo

Program Committee

Sujaya Maiyya and Jelle Hellings (Co-Chairs) and Kerem Akillioglu (University of Waterloo), Nancy Kansal (McMaster University), Wongyu Kim (McMaster University), Shubhankar Mohapatra (University of Waterloo), Celine Sana (McMaster University), Nishttha Sharma (McMaster University), Maryam Valian (McMaster University), and Shufan Zhang (Waterloo University).

Directions and Parking

Everyone that registered received a parking pass for Parking Lot X, located at Optometry, Hagey Blvd, Waterloo, ON N2L 0A7, via e-mail. Please have the parking pass printed and displayed in your car to avoid parking fines.

The directions from Parking Lot X to the Davis Centre can be found via this link. Alternatively, we refer to the following figure:

Contact

Please contact us at 2024 [at] ondbd.ca for further questions, clarifications, or issues.

Sponsors and Supporters

OnDBD is sponsored by SAP Canada and supported by Waterloo University.

Submission Guidelines

We invite proposals for presentations in all areas related to databases and data-focused research. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Data storage, indexing, and querying;
Large-scale data, distributed data processing, and resilient data management;
Data mining, knowledge discovery, and machine learning;
Database benchmarking and performance;
Database theory, dependencies, and query semantics; and
Data science.

Contributions can cover published work or research in progress. Based on the submissions, we will make a selection of contributions that will be presented as a talk. In case of many submissions, we will favour presentations by new faculty and junior researchers.

Please submit your proposals for presentations before the deadline (~~October 1, 2024~~ October 13, 2024). Each proposal should consist of a one-page abstract (including references) based on this LaTeX template (example PDF). Each proposal should contain at-least:

A title for the presentation;
The name and affiliation of the presenter; and
A short description of the presentation.

Proposals for presentations can be submitted at the submission website.

Submission Deadline.: ~~October 1, 2024.~~ October 13, 2024 (extended deadline).
Notification.: ~~October 15, 2024.~~ October 27, 2024.

OnDBD will have no printed proceedings. The one-page abstract of accepted proposals for presentations will be published on this website, e.g., as part of the program.

Registration

Registration for OnDBD 2024 is now open! To register for the symposium, please click here.

The last day to register for OnDBD is ~~December 2nd~~ December 5th. Tickets are limited and subject to availability.

History

See the old website for details on the inaugural edition of OnDBD, held December 13, 2023 at McMaster University.