Many attended the memorial, but many also missed it, so it is good this is online. Martin Kersten instilled in me core values (e.g. systems impact over papers, and DB architecture as foundational research). Also 🙏 @[email protected] 🕊️🇺🇦 Arno Anastasia Ailamaki Yannis & Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) for speaking!

CIDR 2025 is a wrap! Keynotes by Gustavo Alonso on DB research in the hardware age and @hfmuehleisen on creating DB systems from academia; that were thought provoking. Great in-person presentations of 32 papers and 6 sponsor talks, a gong show+quiz by Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) & a startup panel.

Don't miss out on our new work on "Elastic Use of Far Memory for In-Memory Database Management Systems" ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference in Seattle: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…, which will be presented at DaMoN damon-db.org this week.

Still open: super interesting project and working in an inspiring international team is_bpm_tum #nlp #llm #processes #compliance Some read: text2text: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… conversational process modeling: arxiv.org/abs/2304.11065

I'm back again with my annual retrospective of the last year in the world of databases. Major highlights include vector databases, @MariaDB problems, SQL:2023, the FAA database crash, and the most expensive password change ever: ottertune.com/blog/2023-data…

I am happy and proud to share that my first recruited and supervised PhD student SAP Jonas Dann successfully defended his thesis at Uni Heidelberg: see full article here linkedin.com/posts/daniel-r…

We have an opening for a professorship Computer Science, TU Darmstadt hessian.AI in the intersection of #Systems & #AI. We seek outstanding researchers (open rank) who work on Systems for AI / AI for Systems: tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/k…. Please share or reach out to me if you have any questions.

Our book on "Data Structures for Data-Intensive Applications" co-authored with Stratos Idreos (Harvard DASlab) and Dennis Shasha can be downloaded for free from the publisher for the next few days (until Feb 12): nowpublishers.com/article/Detail… #FNT #DataStructures #Textbook #Databases

Just returned from an awesome (and my first) Dagstuhl seminar on "Robust Query Processing in the Cloud" last week - lost of memories, new friendships, and great topics. dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/se…

#NEDB24 program is out bu-disc.github.io/nedbday/2024/#… We have 3 exciting keynotes, 14 talks, and 44 posters! Registration is now open: eventbrite.com/e/north-east-d… Enjoy this wonderful program at NEDB24, held at BU's new iconic CCDS! #NEDB #BU #CCDS photo credit: bostonrealestatetimes.com

Our new book on "Fundamentals of Information Systems Interoperability" arrived today. It is dedicated to the integrative power of data, services, and processes, and provides concepts and hands-on experience Jürgen Mangler Daniel Ritter link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

SQL is turning 50 years old later this week 🎉 In your opinion, which are the best bits? Which are the worst?

Accepted paper with Stefanie Rinderle-Ma in Information Systems journal Elsevier: "Responsible composition and optimization of integration processes under correctness preserving guarantees": sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. More information on: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…. SAP Business Technology Platform SAP

CedarDB: The 🇩🇪German-powered, PostgreSQL-compatible freak-of-nature database management system based on TUM's Umbra (Thomas Neumann + team) is out of stealth and now available: cedardb.com/blog/ode_to_po… /cc CedarDB

Honored to be promoted to Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure at Cornell University. My thanks go to my amazing students, collaborators, mentors, colleagues, and my beloved family. Cornell University Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science #CornellUniversity #Tenure #AssociateProfessor

Don't miss your first chance to try out CedarDB right in your browser!

📢📢We have a new data systems faculty position @ITUkbh dasyaITU. Application deadline: Nov 28. For more information, see the link below. Reach out to me if you have any questions. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

How did Google build the world’s most scalable database? Spanner is an incredibly impressive system–the first data store to provide globally distributed transactions at scale. However, when it was first built, it was hard to use, offering only key-value semantics. This paper