| 2026 | Generalizable Address-Aware Semantic Prefetching for Scalable Transactional and Analytical Workloads. | Farzaneh Zirak, Farhana Choudhury, Renata Borovica-Gajic |
| 2026 | Rethinking BFT Consensus via Transaction-Level Protocol Construction for Optimal Performance. | Bingxu Zhu, Gengrui Zhang |
| 2026 | MINT: Multi-Vector Search Index Tuning. | Jiongli Zhu, Yue Wang, Bailu Ding, Philip A. Bernstein, Vivek R. Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri |
| 2026 | [Experiment, Analysis, and Benchmark] BEACON: A Benchmark for Efficient and Accurate Counting of Subgraphs. | Xiangju Zhu, Mohammad Matin Najafi, Chrysanthi Kosyfaki, Xiaodong Li, Reynold Cheng, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan |
| 2026 | SpendableStore: A UTXO-Based Decentralized Data Store. | Yinan Zhou, Faisal Nawab |
| 2026 | MOCHI: Motif-Based Community Search Over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks. | Yuhan Zhou, Qing Liu, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Yunjun Gao |
| 2026 | CactusDB: Unlock Co-Optimization Opportunities for SQL Queries and AI/ML Model Inferences. | Lixi Zhou, Kanchan Chowdhury, Lulu Xie, Jaykumar Tandel, Hong Guan, Zhiwei Fan, Xinwei Fu, Jia Zou |
| 2026 | Subtree Mode and Applications. | Jialong Zhou, Ben Bals, Matei Tinca, Ai Guan, Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Grigorios Loukides, Solon P. Pissis |
| 2026 | More Than Pivot for Maximal Clique Enumeration. | Zhaoyi Zhong, Rui Zhou, Lu Chen, Xiaofan Li, Chengfei Liu |
| 2026 | AlignSketch: A Framework for Aligning Theoretical and Practical Estimation Errors. | Ce Zheng, Hanyue Zheng, Jingwei Shi, Xinye Xu, Wei Zhou, Tong Yang, Zhenyu Guan, Yong Cui |
| 2026 | Distance Comparison Operations are not Silver Bullets in Vector Similarity Search: A Benchmark Study on their Merits and Limits. | Zhuanglin Zheng, Yuxiang Zeng, Chenchen Liu, Yunzhen Chi, Binhan Yang, Yongxin Tong |
| 2026 | TemplateQO: Template-Aware and Scalable Query Optimization with Data-Efficient Learning. | Pengfei Zheng, Guoneng Li, Ling Xu, Rong Zhu, Yan Li, Bolong Zheng |
| 2026 | Micro: a Lightweight Middleware for Optimizing Cross-Store Cross-Model Graph-Relation Joins. | Xiuwen Zheng, Arun Kumar, Amarnath Gupta |
| 2026 | CausalPre: Scalable and Effective Data Pre-Processing for Causal Fairness. | Ying Zheng, Yangfan Jiang, Kian-Lee Tan |
| 2026 | Beyond Traditional Diagnostics: Transforming Patient-Side Information Into Predictive Insights with Knowledge Graphs and Prototypes. | Yibowen Zhao, Yinan Zhang, Zhixiang Su, Li-Zhen Cui, Chunyan Miao |
| 2026 | LOADs: Adaptive Cloud-Edge-Device Database Management System Optimizer. | Chunyu Zhao, Yihan Zhang, Shuangshuang Cui, Hongzhi Wang |
| 2026 | TAT: Temporal-Aligned Transformer for Multi-Horizon Peak Demand Forecasting. | Zhiyuan Zhao, Sitan Yang, Kin G. Olivares, Boris N. Oreshkin, Stan Vitebsky, Michael W. Mahoney, B. Aditya Prakash, Dmitry Efimov |
| 2026 | Approximate Diverse k-Nearest Neighbor Search in Vector Database. | Jiachen Zhao, Xiao Yan, Eric Lo |
| 2026 | HistCore: Scalable $k$-Core Decomposition on GPUs with Locality-Aware Computation. | Chen Zhao, Guojia Wan, Ting Yu, Jiawei Jiang, Bo Du |
| 2026 | Effective Fairest Community Search Over Heterogeneous Information Networks. | Taige Zhao, Jianxin Li, Man Li, Wei Luo, Jingxian Cheng, Yuan Miao, Hua Wang |
| 2026 | Llmia: an Out-Of-The-Box Index Advisor Via in-Context Learning With Llms. | Xinxin Zhao, Xinmei Huang, Haoyang Li, Jing Zhang, Shuai Wang, Tieying Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Rui Shi, Cuiping Li, Hong Chen |
| 2026 | SQLVec: SQL-Based Vector Similarity Search. | Zhequn Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhu, Hao Zhang, Jeffrey Xu Yu |
| 2026 | Towards the Distributed Large-Scale $k$-NN Graph Construction by Graph Merge. | Cheng Zhang, Wan-Lei Zhao, Shihai Xiao, Jiajie Yao, Xuecang Zhang |
| 2026 | Telescope: A Learned What-If Call for Column Store Selection in HTAP Databases. | Yidong Zhang, Chao Zhang, Zhengkun Wu, Ju Fan, Xinyi Zhang, Hong Chen, Yuxing Chen, Anqun Pan |
| 2026 | Querying Historical $k$-Dense Subgraphs on Temporal Graphs. | Qi Zhang, Yalong Zhang, Rong-Hua Li, Xu-Cheng Yin, Guoren Wang |