IC Monday Seminar : Designing a High Performance Database System: a quest for the holy grail?
Event details
| Date | 12.12.2011 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Martin Kersten, CWI - hosted by Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki |
| Location |
INM 202
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract Multi-core computers with several tens of processor cores, clusters with hundreds of them packed with petabyte storage become affordable for research and applications. The big challenge on the table for many decades is how to harness and exploit such machine power efficiently and effectively. This talk provides an overview of the lessons learned and open issues in the design of MonetDB, a high-performance column store database system. The stage will be set by a short overview of the database query compilation process for an abstract relational algebra engine. The intermediate 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-scale cluster, to scale out using simplified map-reduce models, up to harnessing tens of machines into a big ring where the database itself is continuously on the move. The holy grail for utmost performance has not yet been found, but vistas on the landscape provide ample of opportunities to proceed in unconventional ways. Biography Dr. Martin Kersten devoted most of his scientific career on the development of database systems. The latest incarnation is the open-source system MonetDB (See http://www.monetdb.org), which pioneered and demonstrates viability of the column-storage approach. The system is developed and maintained by the Database Architectures group of CWI, which he established in 1985, and which hosts a strong group of experimental scientists. Kersten is CWI research fellow and a full professor 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
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Simone Muller