Microsoft × VLDB 2026

Boston · Aug 31–Sep 4, 2026

Microsoft at
VLDB'26

Meet the Microsoft researchers and engineers advancing databases, analytics, vector search, and AI-native data systems at VLDB 2026.

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DATABASE SYSTEMS✦VECTOR SEARCH✦ GPU ANALYTICS✦AI + DATA✦ CLOUD DATABASES✦QUERY OPTIMIZATION✦

01 / RECOGNITION

Best Paper Award.

VLDB 2026 recognized two Microsoft papers with the Best Paper Award and a Best Paper Honorable Mention.

VLDB 2026 Best Paper Award Garnet: A Next-Generation Cache-Store for Accelerating Applications and Services Badrish Chandramouli, Vasileios Zois, Ted Hart, Tal Zaccai, Lukas Maas, Yoganand Rajasekaran, Darren Gehring VLDB 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention Scalable GPU Acceleration of Scalar Functions in Analytical Databases: Compilation, Benchmarking and Optimization Kaushik Rajan, Sampath Rajendra, Momin Al-Ghosien, Nicolas Bruno, Carlo Curino, Matteo Interlandi, Yinan Li, Lukas Maas, Craig Peeper, Surajit Chaudhuri, Johannes Gehrke
View Garnet in the official program ↗ View the honorable mention in the official program ↗

02 / RESEARCH

Ideas with
real-world impact.

Explore accepted VLDB 2026 papers featuring authors from Microsoft, Microsoft Research, and Microsoft Gray Systems Lab.

View the official VLDB 2026 program ↗

03 / COMMUNITY

Join us at
Workshops

Join Microsoft researchers and engineers at workshops, live system demonstrations, and panels across the VLDB 2026 program.

04 / CAREERS

Build the data platform
for the age of AI.

Current Microsoft Careers openings whose descriptions carry #azuredata or #azdata, verified and deduplicated by job ID.

45 open positions

Roles change frequently. Data verified from Microsoft Careers on August 25, 2026.