| 2025 | CIDR | Trampoline-Style Queries for SQL. | Louisa Lambrecht, Torsten Grust, Altan Birler, Thomas Neumann |
| 2025 | SIGMOD | How DuckDB is USING KEY to Unlock Recursive Query Performance. | Bjrn Bamberg, Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust |
| 2025 | SIGMOD | The 19th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL). | Amir Shaikhha, Torsten Grust |
| 2024 | CIDR | Dear User-Defined Functions, Inlining isn't working out so great for us. Let's try batching to make our relationship work. Sincerely, SQL. | Kai Franz, Samuel Arch, Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust, Todd C. Mowry, Andrew Pavlo |
| 2023 | CIDR | A Fix for the Fixation on Fixpoints. | Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust |
| 2022 | PADL | Functional Programming on Top of SQL Engines. | Tobias Burghardt, Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust |
| 2022 | SIGMOD | Snakes on a Plan: Compiling Python Functions into Plain SQL Queries. | Tim Fischer, Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust |
| 2021 | SIGMOD | One WITH RECURSIVE is Worth Many GOTOs. | Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust |
| 2020 | CIDR | Compiling PL/SQL Away. | Christian Duta, Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust |
| 2020 | SIGMOD | Functional-Style SQL UDFs With a Capital 'F'. | Christian Duta, Torsten Grust |
| 2020 | SIGMOD | PL/SQL Without the PL. | Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust |
| 2019 | SIGMOD | PgCuckoo: Laying Plan Eggs in PostgreSQL's Nest. | Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust |
| 2017 | BTW | Invest Once, Save a Million Times - LLVM-based Expression Compilation in PostgreSQL. | Dennis Butterstein, Torsten Grust |
| 2016 | EDBT | The Best Bang for Your Bu(ck)g. | Benjamin Dietrich, Tobias Mller, Torsten Grust |
| 2015 | SIGMOD | A SQL Debugger Built from Spare Parts: Turning a SQL: 1999 Database System into Its Own Debugger. | Benjamin Dietrich, Torsten Grust |
| 2015 | SIGMOD | The Flatter, the Better: Query Compilation Based on the Flattening Transformation. | Alexander Ulrich, Torsten Grust |
| 2013 | PADL | Analysing the Entire Wikipedia History with Database Supported Haskell. | George Giorgidze, Torsten Grust, Iassen Halatchliyski, Michael E. Kummer |
| 2013 | POPL | Algebraic data types for language-integrated queries. | George Giorgidze, Torsten Grust, Alexander Ulrich, Jeroen Weijers |
| 2012 | ICDE | A Deep Embedding of Queries into Ruby. | Torsten Grust, Manuel Mayr |
| 2011 | EDBT | True language-level SQL debugging. | Torsten Grust, Fabian Kliebhan, Jan Rittinger, Tom Schreiber |
| 2011 | HASKELL | Bringing back monad comprehensions. | George Giorgidze, Torsten Grust, Nils Schweinsberg, Jeroen Weijers |
| 2010 | EDBT | Let SQL drive the XQuery workhorse (XQuery join graph isolation). | Torsten Grust, Manuel Mayr, Jan Rittinger |
| 2009 | EDBT | Recursion in XQuery: put your distributivity safety belt on. | Loredana Afanasiev, Torsten Grust, Maarten Marx, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner |
| 2009 | ICDE | XQuery Join Graph Isolation: Celebrating 30+ Years of XQuery Processing Technology. | Torsten Grust, Manuel Mayr, Jan Rittinger |
| 2009 | SIGMOD | FERRY: database-supported program execution. | Torsten Grust, Manuel Mayr, Jan Rittinger, Tom Schreiber |
| 2008 | ICDE | An Inflationary Fixed Point Operator in XQuery. | Loredana Afanasiev, Torsten Grust, Maarten Marx, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner |
| 2008 | SIGMOD | Multi-tenant databases for software as a service: schema-mapping techniques. | Stefan Aulbach, Torsten Grust, Dean Jacobs, Alfons Kemper, Jan Rittinger |
| 2007 | BTW | Pathfinder: A Relational Query Optimizer Explores XQuery Terrain. | Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner, Torsten Grust |
| 2007 | ICDE | eXrQuy: Order Indifference in XQuery. | Torsten Grust, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner |
| 2007 | SIGMOD | A SQL: 1999 code generator for the pathfinder xquery compiler. | Torsten Grust, Manuel Mayr, Jan Rittinger, Sherif Sakr, Jens Teubner |
| 2007 | SIGMOD | Why off-the-shelf RDBMSs are better at XPath than you might expect. | Torsten Grust, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner |
| 2006 | EDBT | MonetDB/XQuery-Consistent and Efficient Updates on the Pre/Post Plane. | Peter Boncz, Jan Flokstra, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen, Stefan Manegold, K. Sjoerd Mullender, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner |
| 2006 | SIGMOD | MonetDB/XQuery: a fast XQuery processor powered by a relational engine. | Peter Boncz, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen, Stefan Manegold, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner |
| 2005 | VLDB | Pathfinder: XQuery - The Relational Way. | Peter Boncz, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen, Stefan Manegold, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner |
| 2004 | VLDB | XQuery on SQL Hosts. | Torsten Grust, Sherif Sakr, Jens Teubner |
| 2004 | VLDB | An Injection of Tree Awareness: Adding Staircase Join to PostgreSQL. | Sabine Mayer, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen, Jens Teubner |
| 2003 | VLDB | Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps. | Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen, Jens Teubner |
| 2002 | SIGMOD | Accelerating XPath location steps. | Torsten Grust |