Student teams from degree-granting institutions are invited to compete in the annual SIGMOD Programming Contest. [an error occurred while processing this directive] This year, the subject of the contest is join processing with challenges including cyclic join graphs, imbalanced relation sizes, and varying payload sizes and data distributions. The winning team will be awarded a prize of USD $7,000, and there will be an additional prize of USD $3,000 for the runner-up. Teams' submissions will be judged on their overall performance on a supplied workload. One member of each of the top 5 teams will receive a travel grant to attend the SIGMOD 2018 conference.
This year's contest is brought to you by the Database Systems Group of the Technical University of Munich.