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ACM SIGMOD Conference
Extracted from the Wikipedia article SIGMOD.
The annual ACM SIGMOD Conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of the most important in the field, and received an A* ranking over all edition of the CORE Conference Ranking system. While traditionally this conference had always been held within North America, it took place in Paris in 2004, Beijing in 2007, Athens in 2011, Melbourne in 2015, Amsterdam in 2019, Santiago de Chile in 2024 and Berlin in 2025. The acceptance rate of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, averaged from 1996 to 2012, was 18%, and it was 17% in 2012. Important publications of database systems appear first at SIGMOD, for example, the PostgreSQL database system created by Michael Stonebraker was presented in 1986, for which he received the ACM Turing Award in 2014.