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.
  • Access to research resources at academic partners and connections to industry members.
  • 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.
  • Right to commission LDBC audits to produce official LDBC benchmark results.

Note: Apart from conformance to membership agreement, including the Byelaws and the Fair Use Policy, becoming an LDBC member does not involve any further obligations. Members are not required to attend meetings, travel to events, or be involved in any task forces/working groups.

Annual membership fees

LDBC has the following membership fees (excluding VAT):

  • 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

Auditing fee

For non-sponsor organizations, there is a 2,000 GBP auditing fee, to be paid for each audit to LDBC. Sponsors are exempt from this fee.

Forms

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

Please fill out this form if you are an organization or individual applying to join LDBC:

Fill out one of these forms if you are just contributing to a project in the LDBC GitHub organization.

In either case please email your completed form to info@ldbcouncil.org

Constitutional documents

See the constitutional documents page.