Becoming a Member

Benefits

The benefits of LDBC membership are:

  • Access to the internal LDBC information via its project management system and mailing lists, which include access to discussion documents, datasets, and draft benchmark specifications.
  • Right to membership of LDBC task forces and working groups. Currently, there are task forces on the Social Network Benchmark, Graphalytics, and FinBench, and working groups on graph schemas and query languages.
  • Access to research resources at academic partners and connections to industry members.

Annual membership fees

  • Sponsor company/institution: 8,800 GBP
  • Commercial company: 2,200 GBP
  • Non-commercial institution: 1,100 GBP
  • Individual Voting member (standard rate): 165 GBP
  • Individual Voting member (reduced rate for students, etc.): 10 GBP
  • Individual Associate member: no subscription fee

Note that there is a 2,000 GBP auditing fee per audit for the LDBC for non-sponsor company members. Sponsor companies are exempt from this.

Forms

For the latest information on becoming an LDBC member, see the LDBC Membership – Joining and Renewing 2023 document.

Please fill out the form applicable to your employment status and contribution and email it to the info@ldbcouncil.org address.

Constitutional documents

See the constitutional documents page.