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Overview

The VLDB Journal publishes cutting-edge research on information system architectures, technological impacts on systems, and novel database applications.

Published on behalf of the VLDB Endowment.
Focuses on critical issues relevant to the database community.
Features an annual issue devoted to selected papers from the VLDB Conference.
Publishes regular and special issues on topics such as data management, e-services, and multimedia databases.

Editors-in-Chief (Coordinating)

Georgia Koutrika PhD

Editors-in-Chief

Kyuseok Shim PhD
Nesime Tatbul PhD

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Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor: 3.8 (2024)

5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.3 (2024)

Submission to first decision (median): 12 days

Downloads: 285.6k (2025)

Call for papers

Collection

Spatio-Temporal Data Management and Analytics: Machine Learning-based Solutions and Beyond

The continued deployment of sensing technologies generates increasingly massive amounts of diverse spatio-temporal (ST) data, fueling numerous...

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Latest articles

Balancing Relevance and Diversity in k-Maximum Inner Product Search
Qiang Huang
Yanhao Wang
Jun Yu
Regular Paper 19 June 2026 Article: 32
State Migration in Styx: Towards Serverless Transactional Functions
Kyriakos Psarakis
George Christodoulou
Asterios Katsifodimos
Regular Paper Open access 19 June 2026 Article: 31
Towards A Generalizable and Expressive Graph Neural Network for Graph-Level Tasks with Theoretical Guarantees
Luyu Qiu
Yuming Xu
Qing Li
Regular Paper Open access 09 June 2026 Article: 30
Editorial: Special Issue for Selected Papers of VLDB 2023
Georgia Koutrika
Jun Yang
Editorial 26 May 2026 Article: 29
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VLDB 2023
CardOOD: robust query-driven cardinality estimation under out-of-distribution
Rui Li
Kangfei Zhao
Guoren Wang
Regular Paper 20 May 2026 Article: 28

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This journal has 131 open access articles

Journal updates

Call for Papers: Spatio-Temporal Data Management and Analytics: Machine Learning-based Solutions and Beyond

Guest Editors: Christian S. Jensen, Hao Miao, Yan Zhao, Yuxuan Liang

Submission Deadline: October 15, 2026
Call for Papers: Harnessing the Power of Foundation Models for Data Management

Guest Editors: Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Çağatay Demiralp, George Fletcher, Paul Groth, Yannis Velegrakis.

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2025
Guidelines for Special Issue Proposals

Instructions and guidelines for submitting a Special Issue proposal to The VLDB Journal

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN: 0949-877X
Print ISSN: 1066-8888
Abstracted and indexed in: ACM Digital Library

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