DBEDU Series For Database Education
An integrated practicing platform enhancing the learning experiences in database related courses
NEURON
Learn query execution plans generated by RDBMS based on natural language descriptions.
DBinsight
Visually reveal details from SQL statements to execution plans.
LANTERN
Boredom-conscious natural language description generation of query execution plans.
MOCHA
A Tool for Visualizing Impact of Operator Choices in Query Execution Plans for Database Education.
ARENA
Learn database optimization by comparing query execution plan and alternative plans.
SQLSheet
Learn Data Manipulation Language(DML) by scoring SQL.
# 📘NEURON | 📇DBinsight | 📰LANTERN | 💬MOCHA | ⚓️ARENA | 🚀SQLSheet[*]
# [*]: Only availible inside XD campus
ABOUT US
DBEDU presented by Prof. Hui Li (opens new window) AND His Group in Xidian University
Our Collaborators in DBEDU: Prof. Sourav S Bhowmick (opens new window) (NTU)
Supported DBMSs
This platform is currently compatible with the following DBMSs (may vary across subsystems):
The support for the followings are coming soon:
Team members
Current members: Assoc. Prof. Xiaotian Qiao, Dr. Yingfan Liu, Dr. Xiyue Gao, Dr. Wenbo Zhao, Dr. Mingzhe Wang, Baochao Xu (master student), Zihao Ma(master student) and 6 undergraduate students
Alumni: Weiguo Wang (Alibaba), Peng Chen (Huawei), Hu Wang (China CITIC Bank), Ying Rong (Huawei)
Publications
Liu et al. NEURON: Query Execution Plan Meets Natural Language Processing For Augmenting DB Education. In ACM SIGMOD, 2019. PDF (opens new window) video (opens new window)
Wang et al. Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans. In ACM SIGMOD, 2021. PDF (opens new window) video (opens new window)
Chen et al. LANTERN: Boredom-conscious Natural Language Description Generation of Query Execution Plans for Database Education. In ACM SIGMOD, 2022. PDF (opens new window) video (opens new window)
Jess et al. MOCHA: A Tool for Visualizing Impact of Operator Choices in Query Execution Plans for Database Education. In VLDB, 2022. PDF (opens new window) video (opens new window)
Rong et al. DBinsight: A Tool for Interactively Understanding the Query Processing Pipeline in RDBMSs. In CIKM, 2022. PDF (opens new window) video (opens new window)
Sourav S Bhowmick and Hui Li. Towards Technology-Enabled Learning of Relational Query Processing. In IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 45(3), 2022. PDF (opens new window)
Wang et al. ARENA: Alternative Relational Query Plan Exploration for Database Education. In ACM SIGMOD, 2023. PDF (opens new window)video (opens new window)
Hui Li. Technology-Enabled Database Education: Challenges and Opportunities. SIGMOD Record, 53(2). 2024. PDF (opens new window)
Sourav S Bhowmick and Hui Li. Experience Report on Using LANTERN in Teaching Relational Query Processing. In ACM SIGCSE 2025.