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vldb-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at VLDB and in which PVLDB category, applying the data-management-primitive test, choosing among Regular, EA&B, Scalable Data Science, and Vision papers, and routing against SIGMOD, ICDE, CIDR, EDBT, PODS, KDD, systems venues, and The VLDB Journal.
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# VLDB Topic Selection
Use this before a line is written. Two decisions hide in "let's send it to
VLDB": whether the work is a data-management contribution at all, and which
PVLDB category gives it the friendliest reviewer expectations.
## The primitive test
VLDB rewards work whose core object is a **data-management primitive**:
storage layout, index, query optimization or execution, transaction and
consistency machinery, data integration and cleaning, streaming state, or the
data infrastructure under ML. Two probes:
- Strip the application narrative. Is what remains a reusable mechanism for