Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Novel data formats and data processing algorithms optimized for modern hardwareHardware accelerators such as FPGAs, GPUs and ASICs applied to in-memory databasesNovel ideas for Non-Volatile Memory based storage managersLock-free optimistic concurrency control mechanisms, perhaps exploiting hardware mechanisms such as transactional memoryIn-Memory compression algorithms and accelerators for compression and decompressionAccelerating distributed transactions using new network technologies such as RDMA and Network embedded processorsIn Memory Analytics and Hybrid Workload query processing and optimization techniques especially involving novel applications of SIMD vector instructionsHardware and software acceleration techniques for domain specific In-Memory Databases such as Analytics, Transaction Processing, IoT, Machine Learning, Spatial and Graph applications, etc.