本雜志以VLDB基金會的名義出版，包括學術貢獻，研究信息系統架構、技術進步對信息系統的影響以及新型數據庫應用的開發。《VLDB期刊》除了出版普通期刊外，還出版了一些特別的期刊。每卷一期（通常是第三期）的論文都是從上一年的VLDB會議上挑選出來的。其他特別問題的重點是編輯和編委會認為對數據庫界至關重要的信息，包括：隱私保護數據管理數據庫與信息檢索的集成生命科學的數據管理、分析和挖掘數據流處理XML數據管理電子化服務數據庫和網絡多媒體數據庫

Published on behalf of the VLDB Endowment, this journal contains scholarly contributions that examine information system architectures, the impact of technological advancements on information systems, and the development of novel database applications.The VLDB Journal also publishes a number of special issues in addition to the regular ones. One issue of each volume (usually the third) is devoted to selected papers from the previous year's VLDB Conference. Other special issues focus on information that the Editors and the Editorial Board determine to be of importance to the database community, including:Privacy-Preserving Data ManagementIntegration of databases and information retrievalData Management, Analysis and Mining for the Life SciencesData Stream ProcessingXML Data ManagementE-ServicesDatabases and the WebMultimedia Databases