Availability, Reliability, and Scalability

Tuning, Monitoring, Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation

Big Data Storage, Processing and Transformation

Data Curation, Annotation and Provenance

Data Management in Clouds

Complex Event Processing and Data Streams

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Data Warehousing, Large-Scale Analytics, and ETL Tools

Emerging Hardware and In-memory Database Architecture and Systems

Heterogeneous Databases, Data Integration and Interoperability

Middleware and Workflow Management

Parallel, Distributed and Grid Data Management

Privacy, Trust and Security in Databases

Indexing, Query Processing and Optimization

Semantic Web and Knowledge Management

Sensor and Mobile Data Management

Scientific and Statistical Databases

Social Networks and Crowdsourcing

Graph Databases

Spatial, Temporal, and Geographic Databases

Text Databases and Information Retrieval

Semi-Structured and Linked Data Management

Modeling, Mining and Querying User Generated Content

Data Quality

User Interfaces and Data Visualization