| 2025 | CIDR | Cephalopod - Virtual Data Model Composition through Partial Query Translation. | David Loughlin, Holger Pirk |
| 2025 | ICDE | DEPA-Delta Shifting and Distribution Shaping for Efficient Adaptive Indexing. | Ahmad Khazaie, Holger Pirk |
| 2025 | ICDE | White-Box Micro-Adaptive Query Processing. | Jack Pearce, Hubert Mohr-Daurat, Holger Pirk |
| 2023 | EDBT | SonicJoin: Fast, Robust and Worst-case Optimal. | Ahmad Khazaie, Holger Pirk |
| 2023 | VLDB | Wisent: An In-Memory Serialization Format for Leafy Trees. | Hubert Mohr-Daurat, Holger Pirk |
| 2020 | EDBT | SlideSide: A fast Incremental Stream Processing Algorithm for Multiple Queries. | Georgios Theodorakis, Peter R. Pietzuch, Holger Pirk |
| 2020 | SIGMOD | LightSaber: Efficient Window Aggregation on Multi-core Processors. | Georgios Theodorakis, Alexandros Koliousis, Peter R. Pietzuch, Holger Pirk |
| 2019 | CIDR | Thriving in the No Man's Land between Compilers and Databases. | Holger Pirk, Jana Giceva, Peter R. Pietzuch |
| 2019 | FPL | Accelerating the Merge Phase of Sort-Merge Join. | Philippos Papaphilippou, Holger Pirk, Wayne Luk |
| 2018 | SIGMOD | Efficient Top-K Query Processing on Massively Parallel Hardware. | Anil Shanbhag, Holger Pirk, Samuel Madden |
| 2018 | VLDB | Hammer Slide: Work- and CPU-efficient Streaming Window Aggregation. | Georgios Theodorakis, Alexandros Koliousis, Peter R. Pietzuch, Holger Pirk |
| 2017 | CIDR | A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analysis. | Shoumik Palkar, James Thomas, Anil Shanbhag, Deepak Narayanan, Holger Pirk, Malte Schwarzkopf, Saman P. Amarasinghe, Matei Zaharia |
| 2016 | SIGMOD | What Makes a Good Physical plan?: Experiencing Hardware-Conscious Query Optimization with Candombl. | Holger Pirk, Oscar R. Moll, Sam Madden |
| 2016 | VLDB | Locality-Adaptive Parallel Hash Joins Using Hardware Transactional Memory. | Anil Shanbhag, Holger Pirk, Sam Madden |
| 2015 | DaMoN | By their fruits shall ye know them: A Data Analyst's Perspective on Massively Parallel System Design. | Holger Pirk, Sam Madden, Mike Stonebraker |
| 2015 | ICDE | The DBMS - your big data sommelier. | Yagiz Kargin, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold, Holger Pirk |
| 2014 | DaMoN | Database cracking: fancy scan, not poor man's sort! | Holger Pirk, Eleni Petraki, Stratos Idreos, Stefan Manegold, Martin L. Kersten |
| 2014 | ICDE | Waste not... Efficient co-processing of relational data. | Holger Pirk, Stefan Manegold, Martin L. Kersten |
| 2013 | ICDE | CPU and cache efficient management of memory-resident databases. | Holger Pirk, Florian Funke, Martin Grund, Thomas Neumann, Ulf Leser, Stefan Manegold, Alfons Kemper, Martin L. Kersten |
| 2012 | DaMoN | X-device query processing by bitwise distribution. | Holger Pirk, Thibault Sellam, Stefan Manegold, Martin L. Kersten |
| 2011 | VLDB | Accelerating Foreign-Key Joins using Asymmetric Memory Channels. | Holger Pirk, Stefan Manegold, Martin L. Kersten |
| 2005 | GI | Werkzeuggesttzte interaktive Formalisierung textueller Anwendungsfallbeschreibungen fr den Systemtest. | Mario Friske, Holger Pirk |