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title: "XLDB 2015 best lightning talk"
date: "2015-07-31 11:53:00 -0800"
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Julian Hyde's talk Apache Calcite: One planner fits all won
[Best Lightning Talk](http://www.xldb.org/archives/2015/05/best-lightning-talks-selected/)
at the XLDB-2015 conference (with Eric Tschetter's talk "Sketchy
Approximations").

XLDB is an annual conference that brings together experts from
science, industry and academia to find practical solutions to problems
involving extremely large data sets.

As a result of winning Best Lightning Talk, Julian will get a 30
minute keynote speaking slot at XLDB-2016.

The talk is available in
[slides](http://www.slideshare.net/julianhyde/apache-calcite-one-planner-fits-all)
and [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_MyORYjq3w).
