Your Roadmap to VLDB 2026: Submit Every Month, Shine in Boston

[Joanne]

The International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) is a premier annual forum for data management and scalable data science research, bringing together academics, industry engineers, practitioners and users. VLDB 2026 will feature research talks, keynotes, panels, tutorials, demonstrations, industrial sessions and workshops that span the full spectrum of information management topics, from system architecture and theory to large scale experimentation and demanding real world applications.

Key areas of interest for its companion journal PVLDB include, but are not limited to, data mining and analytics, data privacy and security, database engines, database performance and manageability, distributed database systems, graph and network data, information integration and data quality, languages, machine learning / AI and databases, novel database architectures, provenance and workflows, specialized and domain-specific data management, text and semi-structured data, and user interfaces.

The 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2026) runs 31 Aug – 4 Sep 2026 in Boston, MA, USA. Peer review is handled via Microsoft’s Conference Management Toolkit (CMT). The submission channel will be PVLDB Vol 19 (rolling research track)
with General Chairs Angela Bonifati (Lyon 1 University & IUF, France) and Mirek Riedewald (Northeastern University, USA)

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Rolling submission calendar (PVLDB Vol 19)

Phase	Recurring date*	Notes
Submissions open	20 th of the previous month	CMT site opens
Paper deadline	1 st of each month (Apr 1 2025 → Mar 1 2026)	17:00 PT hard cut-off
Notification / initial reviews	15 th of following month	Accept / Major Revision / Reject
Revision due	≤ 2.5 months later (1 st of third month)	Single-round revision
Camera-ready instructions	5 th of the month after acceptance	Sent to accepted papers
Final cut-off for VLDB 2026	1 Jun 2026 revision deadline	Later acceptances roll to VLDB 2027

*See the official CFP for the full calendar.

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Acceptance statistics (research track)

Year	Submissions	Accepted	Rate
2022	976	265	27.15 %
2021	882	212	24 %
2020	827	207	25.03 %
2019	677	128	18.9 %
2013	559	127	22.7 %
2012	659	134	20.3 %
2011	553	100	18.1 %

Acceptance has ranged between ~18 % and ~27 % in the PVLDB era. Rolling monthly deadlines have increased submission volume while maintaining selectivity.

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Emerging research themes (2025 – 2026)

• Vector databases & retrieval-augmented LMs
• Hardware / software co-design for LLM workloads
• Scalable graph management & analytics
• Multimodal querying & knowledge-rich search with LLMs

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Submission checklist

1. Use the official PVLDB Vol 19 LaTeX/Word template.
2. Declare all conflicts of interest in CMT.
3. Provide an artifact URL for reproducibility.
4. Submit early (before Jan 2026) to leave revision headroom.
5. Ensure at least one author registers to present in Boston (or via the hybrid option).

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Key links

• Main site: https://www.vldb.org/2026/
• Research-track CFP & important dates: https://www.vldb.org/2026/call-for-research-track.html
• PVLDB Vol 19 submission guidelines: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/19/submission/

Draft early, align your work with the vector and LLM data system wave, and shine in Boston!