It's X.T. (as in 'Cross-Time' / https://xtdb.com), but thank you! :)
> 1: https://aidanhogan.com/docs/ring-graph-wco.pdf
Oh nice, I recall skimming this team's precursor paper "Worst-Case Optimal Graph Joins in Almost No Space" (2021) - seems like they've done a lot more work since though, so definitely looking forward to reading it:
> The conference version presented the ring in terms of the Burrows–Wheeler transform. We present a new formulation of the ring in terms of stable sorting on column databases, which we hope will be more accessible to a broader audience not familiar with text indexing