As 2021 is about to end, I am reflecting on the first year of the nascent ACM SIGMOD Record “DBrainstorming” column. Earlier in 2021, Rada Chirkova, the SIGMOD Record Editor-in-Chief who has assembled an excellent “cast” of associated editors, reached out to discuss the creation of a new column to discuss hot topics (about all sorts of thought-provoking ideas from the DB community). After a short debate on the name of the new column, we converged to “DBrainstorming” and we started to solicit the first contributions. In 2021, SIGMOD Record has hosted three instances of the column, in the June (on software/hardware co-design), September (on tuning using NLP), and December (on video analytics) issues.
The column aims to host more contributions with thought-provoking ideas, exciting new research directions, or radically new approaches we should be taking in the DB community. While the first three columns focus on new research directions we also welcome contributions on teaching, industry topics, research methodology, reproducibility, and other topics of DB interest.
Stay tuned!