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SUMMARY:IC Monday Seminar : Designing a High Performance Database System: 
 a quest for the holy grail?
DTSTART:20111212T161500
DTSTAMP:20260407T163325Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Martin Kersten\, CWI - hosted by Prof. Anastasia Ailamak
 i \nAbstract Multi-core computers with several tens of processor cores\, c
 lusters with hundreds of them packed with petabyte storage become affordab
 le for research and applications. The big challenge on the table for many 
 decades is how to harness and exploit such machine power efficiently and e
 ffectively. This talk provides an overview of the lessons learned and open
  issues in the design of MonetDB\, a high-performance column store databas
 e system. The stage will be set by a short overview of the database query 
 compilation process for an abstract relational algebra engine. The interme
 diate plans produced by the SQL front-end are massaged into parallel plans
  to exploit the multi-core setting\, to use remote workers in a small-scal
 e cluster\, to scale out using simplified map-reduce models\, up to harnes
 sing tens of machines into a big ring where the database itself is continu
 ously on the move. The holy grail for utmost performance has not yet been 
 found\, but vistas on the landscape provide ample of opportunities to proc
 eed in unconventional ways. Biography Dr. Martin Kersten devoted most of h
 is scientific career on the development of database systems. The latest in
 carnation is the open-source system MonetDB (See http://www.monetdb.org)\,
  which pioneered and  demonstrates viability of the column-storage approa
 ch. The system is developed and maintained by the Database Architectures g
 roup of CWI\, which he established in 1985\, and which hosts a strong grou
 p of experimental scientists. Kersten is CWI research fellow and a full pr
 ofessor of the University of Amsterdam. He is a (co)author of >140 papers 
 and recipient of multiple large (inter) national research grants to steer 
 multi-media and scientific database research.  He is a member emeritus of
  the VLDB Endowment. more information
LOCATION:INM 202
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