Abigale Kim
@abigalekim.bsky.social
databases phd student at uw madison, organizing https://madisonsystems.xyz/
So grateful for @tylerhillery.com and @xiangpeng.systems for kickstarting this effort! We will be hosting talks on all the cool stuff people are doing, so definitely check the Luma calendar out 💯
What a turnout for the first ever Madison Systems meetup. I'm blown away by the systems talent and interest in Madison!
Make sure to subscribe to the Madison Systems Luma calendar for updates on future events: luma.com/madisonsystems
Make sure to subscribe to the Madison Systems Luma calendar for updates on future events: luma.com/madisonsystems
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
So grateful for @tylerhillery.com and @xiangpeng.systems for kickstarting this effort! We will be hosting talks on all the cool stuff people are doing, so definitely check the Luma calendar out 💯
@tylerhillery.com, @xiangpeng.systems, and I are super stoked to announce the creation of the Madison Systems group and our first event, a coffee chat on Nov. 9th at Union South (UW-Madison campus)! Luma invite here: luma.com/v69tvpla
Madison Systems Coffee Chat · Luma
If you’re working on or are interested in anything in the space of software internals (compilers, databases, operating systems, etc.), come grab a cup of…
luma.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
@tylerhillery.com, @xiangpeng.systems, and I are super stoked to announce the creation of the Madison Systems group and our first event, a coffee chat on Nov. 9th at Union South (UW-Madison campus)! Luma invite here: luma.com/v69tvpla
It was super fun recording this with Jack, thank you for letting me talk about my research and share the joy (and pain) of extensions research to the world! 🎉
There's a new DuckDB episode from @disseminatepodcast.bsky.social.
In S02E02, host Jack Waudby interviews Abigale Kim (@abigalekim.bsky.social), a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on anarchy in database extensions.
🎧 Listen to the full episode at duckdb.org/science/abig...
In S02E02, host Jack Waudby interviews Abigale Kim (@abigalekim.bsky.social), a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on anarchy in database extensions.
🎧 Listen to the full episode at duckdb.org/science/abig...
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It was super fun recording this with Jack, thank you for letting me talk about my research and share the joy (and pain) of extensions research to the world! 🎉
Yes!!!! Super excited to be there!!
@abigalekim.bsky.social @xiangpeng.systems and I are kicking off Madison Systems with a coffee chat on Sunday, Nov 9th. Come nerd out on systems!
luma.com/v69tvpla
luma.com/v69tvpla
Madison Systems Coffee Chat · Luma
If you’re working on or are interested in anything in the space of software internals (compilers, databases, operating systems, etc.), come grab a cup of…
luma.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yes!!!! Super excited to be there!!
Reposted by Abigale Kim
Congrats to Bobbi Yogatama for defending his thesis on GPU data analytics! Recently, he’s been leading Sirius DB (github.com/sirius-db/sirius), which is a GPU-native SQL engine built on top of @duckdb.org. After graduation, he’s headed to NVIDIA!
September 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Congrats to Bobbi Yogatama for defending his thesis on GPU data analytics! Recently, he’s been leading Sirius DB (github.com/sirius-db/sirius), which is a GPU-native SQL engine built on top of @duckdb.org. After graduation, he’s headed to NVIDIA!
Reposted by Abigale Kim
At last @abigalekim.bsky.social's paper is out! Its the most complete eval of DB extensions/plugins ever. We analyze PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, DuckDB, Redis.
TLDR: Postgres extns ecosystem is fraught with footguns. Other DBMSs have fewer extns but less problems. DuckDB has cleanest API.
TLDR: Postgres extns ecosystem is fraught with footguns. Other DBMSs have fewer extns but less problems. DuckDB has cleanest API.
Vol:18 No:6 → Anarchy in the Database: A Survey and Evaluation of Database Management System Extensibility
👥 Authors: Abigale Kim, Marco Slot, David Andersen, Andrew Pavlo
📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p1962-kim.pdf
👥 Authors: Abigale Kim, Marco Slot, David Andersen, Andrew Pavlo
📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p1962-kim.pdf
July 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
At last @abigalekim.bsky.social's paper is out! Its the most complete eval of DB extensions/plugins ever. We analyze PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, DuckDB, Redis.
TLDR: Postgres extns ecosystem is fraught with footguns. Other DBMSs have fewer extns but less problems. DuckDB has cleanest API.
TLDR: Postgres extns ecosystem is fraught with footguns. Other DBMSs have fewer extns but less problems. DuckDB has cleanest API.
Reposted by Abigale Kim
Congrats to Elena Milkai on defending her thesis on real-time transactional analytics! One of her projects, HERMES (@vldb.bsky.social 2025), enables data consolidation across transactional and analytical engines without system changes. After grad, she’s headed to Salesforce's DB team!
May 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Congrats to Elena Milkai on defending her thesis on real-time transactional analytics! One of her projects, HERMES (@vldb.bsky.social 2025), enables data consolidation across transactional and analytical engines without system changes. After grad, she’s headed to Salesforce's DB team!
Go Will!
Presenting now at ##PGConfdev is William Zhang with “ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! Next Generation Automated Database Tuning”—a deep dive into LLM‑driven agents that tune every facet of ##PostgreSQL.
May 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Go Will!
Reposted by Abigale Kim
Congrats to the winners from our group at the CS department awards!
Hangdong Zhao: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Yifei Yang: Klug Fellowship in Database Systems
Konstantinos Kanellis: Landweber Fellowship in Distributed Systems
@abigalekim.bsky.social: First Yr Summer Fellowship
Hangdong Zhao: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Yifei Yang: Klug Fellowship in Database Systems
Konstantinos Kanellis: Landweber Fellowship in Distributed Systems
@abigalekim.bsky.social: First Yr Summer Fellowship
May 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Congrats to the winners from our group at the CS department awards!
Hangdong Zhao: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Yifei Yang: Klug Fellowship in Database Systems
Konstantinos Kanellis: Landweber Fellowship in Distributed Systems
@abigalekim.bsky.social: First Yr Summer Fellowship
Hangdong Zhao: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Yifei Yang: Klug Fellowship in Database Systems
Konstantinos Kanellis: Landweber Fellowship in Distributed Systems
@abigalekim.bsky.social: First Yr Summer Fellowship