Database Theory Column Report on PODS 2025

The 44th edition of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) was held from June 23 to 25, 2025, in Berlin, Germany. As in previous years, the symposium was held jointly with the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD). PODS research aims to provide a solid scientific foundation for methods, techniques, and solutions to the data management challenges that continually arise in our data-driven society. Specifically, PODS calls for papers contributing principled approaches to modeling, application, system building, and both theoretical and experimental validation in the context of data management. Such papers may be based, among others, on establishing theoretical results, developing new concepts and frameworks that merit further exploration, providing experimental work that sheds light on the scientific foundations of the discipline, or conducting a rigorous analysis of widely used or recently developed industry artifacts.