The thirteenth issue of the seventh volume of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) is now available electronically at the VLDB web site:

   http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7.html

This issue consists of the papers that have been accepted for the Industry and Demonstration Tracks, tutorials and Ph.D. workshop overview, keynote and award Talks, and selected papers from local industry for VLDB 2014 in Hangzhou, China in September 2014:

Industrial, Applications, and Experience Papers

 1. MRTuner: A Toolkit to Enable Holistic Optimization for MapReduce Jobs
    Juwei Shi, Jia Zou, Jiaheng Lu, Zhao Cao, Shiqiang Li, and Chen Wang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1319-shi.pdf

 2. Reducing Database Locking Contention Through Multi-version Concurrency
    Mohammad Sadoghi, Mustafa Canim, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Fabian Nagel, Kenneth A. Ross 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1331-sadoghi.pdf

 3. Changing Engines in Midstream: A Java Stream Computational Model for Big Data Processing
    Xueyuan Su, Garret Swart, Brian Goetz, Brian Oliver, Paul Sandoz        
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1343-su.pdf

 4. Joins on Encoded and Partitioned Data
    Jae-Gil Lee, Gopi Attaluri, Ronald Barber, Naresh Chainani, Oliver Draese, Frederick Ho, Stratos Idreos, Min-Soo Kim, Sam Lightstone, Guy Lohman, Konstantinos Morfonios, Keshava Murthy, Ippokratis Pandis, Lin Qiao, Vijayshankar Raman, Vincent Kulandai Samy, Richard Sidle, Knut Stolz, Liping Zhang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1355-lee.pdf

 5. TPC-DI: The First Industry Benchmark for Data Integration
    Meikel Poess, Tilmann Rabl, Brian Caufield     
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1367-poess.pdf

 6. Real-Time Twitter Recommendation: Online Motif Detection in Large Dynamic Graphs
    Pankaj Gupta, Venu Satuluri, Ajeet Grewal, Siva Gurumurthy, Volodymyr Zhabiuk, Quannan Li, and Jimmy Lin 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1379-lin.pdf

 7. Interval Disaggregate: A New Operator for Business Planning
    Sang K. Cha, Kunsoo Park, Changbin Song, Kihong Kim, Cheol Ryu, Sunho Lee
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1381-cha.pdf

 8. Fuxi: a Fault-Tolerant Resource Management and Job Scheduling System at Internet Scale
    Zhuo Zhang, Chao Li, Yangyu Tao, Renyu Yangy, Hong Tang, Jie Xu
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1393-zhang.pdf

 9. Large-Scale Graph Analytics in Aster 6: Bringing Context to Big Data Discovery
    David Simmen, Karl Schnaitter, Jeff Davis, Yingjie He, Sangeet Lohariwala, Ajay Mysore, Vinayak Shenoi, Mingfeng Tan, Yu Xiao
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1405-simmen.pdf

 10. Fast Foreign-Key Detection in Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel
    Zhimin Chen, Vivek Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1417-chen.pdf

 11. Big Data Small Footprint: The Design of A Low-Power Classifier for Detecting Transportation Modes
    Meng-Chieh Yu, Tong Yu, Shao-Chen Wang, Chih-Jen Lin, Edward Y. Chang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1429-yu.pdf

 12. Summingbird: A Framework for Integrating Batch and Online MapReduce Computations
    Oscar Boykin, Sam Ritchie, Ian O’Connell, Jimmy Lin 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1441-boykin.pdf

 13. Of Snowstorms and Bushy Trees
    Rafi Ahmed, Rajkumar Sen, Meikel Poess, Sunil Chakkappen
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1452-ahmed.pdf

 14. Execution Primitives for Scalable Joins and Aggregations in Map Reduce
    Srinivas Vemuri, Maneesh Varshney, Krishna Puttaswamy, Rui Liu   
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1462-vemuri.pdf

 15. CAP Limits in Telecom Subscriber Database Design
    Javier Arauz     
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1474-arauz.pdf

 16. Advanced Join Strategies for Large-Scale Distributed Computation
    Nicolas Bruno, YongChul Kwon, Ming-Chuan Wu 
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1484-bruno.pdf

 17. DGFIndex for Smart Grid: Enhancing Hive with a Cost-Effective Multidimensional Range Index
    Yue Liu, Songlin Hu, Tilmann Rabl, Wantao Liu, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Kaifeng Wu, Jian Chen, Jintao Li
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1496-liu.pdf

 18. Error-bounded Sampling for Analytics on Big Sparse Data
    Ying Yan, Liang Jeff Chen, Zheng Zhang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1508-yan.pdf

 19. Indexing HDFS Data in PDW: Splitting the data from the index
    Vinitha Reddy Gankidi, Nikhil Teletia, Jignesh M. Patel, Alan Halverson, David J. DeWitt
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1520-gankidi.pdf

 20. Chimera: Large-Scale Classification using Machine Learning, Rules, and Crowdsourcing
    Chong Sun, Narasimhan Rampalli, Frank Yang, AnHai Doan
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1529-sun.pdf


Demonstrations

 1. Interactive Join Query Inference with JIM
    Angela Bonifati, Radu Ciucanu, Slawek Staworko    
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1541-bonifati.pdf

 2. MESA: A Map Service to Support Fuzzy Type-ahead Search over Geo-Textual Data
    Yuxin Zheng, Zhifeng Bao, Lidan Shou, Anthony K. H. Tung
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1545-zheng.pdf

 3. R3: A Real-Time Route Recommendation System
    Henan Wang, Guoliang Li, Huiqi Hu, Shuo Chen, Bingwen Shen, Hao Wu, Wen-Syan Li, Kian-Lee Tan    
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1549-wang.pdf

 4. PDQ: Proof-driven Query Answering over Web-based Data
    Michael Benedikt, Julien Leblay, Efthymia Tsamoura
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1553-benedikt.pdf

 5. Data In, Fact Out: Automated Monitoring of Facts by FactWatcher
    Naeemul Hassan, Afroza Sultana, You Wu, Gensheng Zhang, Chengkai Li, Jun Yang, Cong Yu
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1557-hassan.pdf

 6. OceanST: A Distributed Analytic System for Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Mobile Broadband Data
    Mingxuan Yuan, Ke Deng, Jia Zeng, Yanhua Li, Bing Ni, Xiuqiang He, Fei Wang, Wenyuan Dai, Qiang Yang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1561-yuan.pdf

 7. That’s All Folks! LLUNATIC Goes Open Source
    Floris Geerts, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Papotti, Donatello Santoro                    
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1565-mecca.pdf

 8. HDBTracker: Monitoring the Aggregates On Dynamic Hidden Web Databases
    Weimo Liu, Saad Bin Suhaim, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Nan Zhang, Gautam Das, Ali Jaoua
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1569-liu.pdf

 9. BSMA: A Benchmark for Analytical Queries over Social Media Data
    Fan Xia, Ye Li, Chengcheng Yu, Haixin Ma, Weining Qian
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1573-xia.pdf

 10. Graph-based Data Integration and Business Intelligence with BIIIG
    Andre Petermann, Martin Junghanns, Robert Muller, Erhard Rahm
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1577-petermann.pdf

 11. SEEDB: Automatically Generating Query Visualizations
    Manasi Vartak, Samuel Madden, Aditya Parameswaran, Neoklis Polyzotis
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1581-vartak.pdf

 12. QUEST: An Exploratory Approach to Robust Query Processing
    Anshuman Dutt, Sumit Neelam, Jayant R. Haritsa    
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1585-dutt.pdf

 13. Redoop Infrastructure for Recurring Big Data Queries
    Chuan Lei, Zhongfang Zhuang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mohamed Y. Eltabakh
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1589-lei.pdf

 14. PackageBuilder: From Tuples to Packages
    Matteo Brucato, Rahul Ramakrishna, Azza Abouzied, Alexandra Meliou
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1593-brucato.pdf

 15. Ontology Assisted Crowd Mining 
    Yael Amsterdamer, Susan B. Davidson, Tova Milo, Slava Novgorodov, Amit Somech
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1597-amsterdamer.pdf

 16. SOPS: A System for Efficient Processing of Spatial-Keyword Publish/Subscribe
    Lisi Chen, Yan Cui, Gao Cong, Xin Cao
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1601-chen.pdf

 17. MLJ: Language-Independent Real-Time Search of Tweets Reported by Media Outlets and Journalists
    Masumi Shirakawa, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1605-shirakawa.pdf

 18. Ocelot/HyPE: Optimized Data Processing on Heterogeneous Hardware
    Sebastian Bress, Max Heimel, Michael Saecker, Bastian Kocher, Volker Markl, Gunter Saake
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1609-bress.pdf

 19. MoveMine 2.0: Mining Object Relationships from Movement Data
    Fei Wu, Tobias Kin Hou Lei, Zhenhui Li, Jiawei Han
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1613-wu.pdf

 20. A Partitioning Framework for Aggressive Data Skipping
    Liwen Sun, Sanjay Krishnan, Reynold S. Xin, Michael J. Franklin
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1617-sun.pdf

 21. Interactive Outlier Exploration in Big Data Streams
    Lei Cao, Qingyang Wang, Elke A. Rundensteiner
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1621-cao.pdf

 22. SQL/AA: Executing SQL on an Asymmetric Architecture
    Quoc-Cuong To, Benjamin Nguyen, Philippe Pucheral
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1625-to.pdf

 23. gMission: A General Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform
    Zhao Chen, Rui Fu, Ziyuan Zhao, Zheng Liu, Leihao Xia, Lei Chen, Peng Cheng, Caleb Chen Cao, Yongxin Tong, Chen Jason Zhang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1629-chen.pdf

 24. S-Store: A Streaming NewSQL System for Big Velocity Applications
    Ugur Cetintemel, Jiang Du, Tim Kraska, Samuel Madden, David Maier, John Meehan, Andrew Pavlo, Michael Stonebraker, Erik Sutherland, Nesime Tatbul, Kristin Tufte, Hao Wang, Stanley Zdonik
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1633-cetintemel.pdf

 25. CLEar: A Real-time Online Observatory for Bursty and Viral Events
    Runquan Xie, Feida Zhu, Hui Ma, Wei Xie, Chen Lin
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1637-xie.pdf

 26. AZDBLab: A Laboratory Information System for Large-Scale Empirical DBMS Studies
    Young-Kyoon Suh, Richard T. Snodgrass, Rui Zhang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1641-suh.pdf

 27. Terrain-Toolkit: A Multi-Functional Tool for Terrain Data
    Qi Wang, Manohar Kaul, Cheng Long, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong  
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1645-wang.pdf

 28. FORWARD: Data-Centric UIs using Declarative Templates that Efficiently Wrap Third-Party JavaScript Components
    Yupeng Fu, Kian Win Ong, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Erick Zamora            
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1649-fu.pdf

 29. SPIRE: Supporting Parameter-Driven Interactive Rule Mining and Exploration
    Xika Lin, Abhishek Mukherji, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1653-lin.pdf

 30. An Integrated Development Environment for Faster Feature Engineering
    Michael R. Anderson, Michael Cafarella, Yixing Jiang, Guan Wang, Bochun Zhang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1657-anderson.pdf

 31. Pronto: A Software-Defined Networking based System for Performance Management of Analytical Queries on Distributed Data Stores
    Pengcheng Xiong, Hakan Hacigumus
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1661-xiong.pdf

 32. Getting Your Big Data Priorities Straight: A Demonstration of Priority-based QoS using Social-network-driven Stock Recommendation
    Rui Zhang, Reshu Jain, Prasenjit Sarkar, Lukas Rupprecht
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1665-zhang.pdf

 33. VERTEXICA: Your Relational Friend for Graph Analytics!
    Alekh Jindal, Praynaa Rawlani, Eugene Wu, Samuel Madden, Amol Deshpande, Mike Stonebraker
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1669-jindal.pdf

 34. NScale: Neighborhood-centric Analytics on Large Graphs
    Abdul Quamar, Amol Deshpande, Jimmy Lin
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1673-quamar.pdf

 35. DPSynthesizer: Differentially Private Data Synthesizer for Privacy Preserving Data Sharing
    Haoran Li, Li Xiong, Lifan Zhang, Xiaoqian Jiang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1677-li.pdf

 36. SPOT: Locating Social Media Users Based on Social Network Context
    Longbo Kong, Zhi Liu, Yan Huang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1681-liu.pdf

 37. RASP-QS: Efficient and Confidential Query Services in the Cloud
    Zohreh Alavi, Lu Zhou, James Powers, Keke Chen
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1685-alavi.pdf

 38. Thoth: Towards Managing a Multi-System Cluster
    Mayuresh Kunjir, Prajakta Kalmegh, Shivnath Babu
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1689-kunjir.pdf

 39. X-LiSA: Cross-lingual Semantic Annotation
    Lei Zhang, Achim Rettinger
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1693-zhang.pdf

 40. Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System
    Prasanth Jayachandran, Karthik Tunga, Niranjan Kamat, Arnab Nandi
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1697-jayachandran.pdf

 41. STMaker – A System to Make Sense of Trajectory Data
    Han Su, Kai Zheng, Kai Zeng, Jiamin Huang, Xiaofang Zhou
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1701-su.pdf

 42. Faster Visual Analytics through Pixel-Perfect Aggregation
    Uwe Jugel, Zbigniew Jerzak, Gregor Hackenbroich, Volker Markl
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1705-jugel.pdf


Tutorials and Workshop

 1. Systems for Big-Graphs
    Arijit Khan, Sameh Elnikety
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1709-khan.pdf

 2. Tutorial: Uncertain Entity Resolution
    Avigdor Gal
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1711-gal.pdf

 3. Knowledge Bases in the Age of Big Data Analytics
    Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1713-suchanek.pdf

 4. Causality and Explanations in Databases
    Alexandra Meliou, Sudeepa Roy, Dan Suciu
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1715-meliou.pdf

 5. Enterprise Search in the Big Data Era: Recent Developments and Open Challenges
    Yunyao Li, Ziyang Liu, Huaiyu Zhu
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1717-li.pdf

 6. VLDB 2014 Ph.D. Workshop — An Overview
    Yunyao Li, Erich Neuhold
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1719-phd.pdf


Keynote and Award Talks

 1. Datacenters as Computers: Google Engineering & Database Research Perspectives
    Shivakumar Venkataraman, Divyakant Agrawal
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1720-venkataraman-agrawal.pdf

 2. The Impact of Columnar In-Memory Databases on Enterprise Systems
    Hasso Plattner    
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1722-plattner.pdf

 3. Breaking the Chains: On Declarative Data Analysis and Data Independence in the Big Data Era
    Volker Markl
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1730-markl.pdf

 4. Engineering High-Performance Database Engines
    Thomas Neumann
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1734-neumann.pdf

 
Selected Papers from Local Industry

 1. Realization of the Low Cost and High Performance MySQL Cloud Database
    Wei Cao, Feng Yu, Jiasen Xie
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1742-alibaba.pdf

 2. Fatman: Cost-saving and reliable archival storage based on volunteer resources
    An Qin, Dianming Hu, Jun Liu, Wenjun Yang, Dai Tan
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1748-baidu.pdf

 3. Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Interactive Analytics System for Large Spatio-Temporal Data
    Shiming Zhang, Yin Yang, Wei Fan, Marianne Winslet
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1754-huawei.pdf

 4. A Personalized Recommendation System for NetEase Dating Site
    Chaoyue Dai, Feng Qian, Wei Jiang, Zhoutian Wang, Zenghong Wu
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1760-netease.pdf

 5. GEMINI: An Integrative Healthcare Analytics System
    Zheng Jye Ling, Quoc Trung Tran, Ju Fan, Gerald C.H. Koh, Thi Nguyen, Chuen Seng Tan, James W. L. Yip, Meihui Zhang
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1766-nuhs.pdf

 6. Mariana: Tencent Deep Learning Platform and its Applications
    Yongqiang Zou, Xing Jin, Yi Li, Zhimao Guo, Eryu Wang, Bin Xiao
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1772-tencent.pdf

 7. yzBigData: Provisioning Customizable Solution for Big Data
    Sai Wu, Gang Chen, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou, Hui Cao, He Bai
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1778-yzbigdata.pdf

Errata

 1. Errata for "Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language" (PVLDB 7(10): 853-864)
    Yannis Klonatos, Christoph Koch, Tiark Rompf, Hassan Chafi
    http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1784-klonatos.pdf
  

In addition, the front matter contains a letter from the VLDB 2014 Program Co-Chair, H. V. Jagadish. 
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/FrontMatterVol7No13.pdf

Li Xiong, Emory University
Cong Yu, Google Research New York
VLDB 2014 Proceedings Chairs