The number of devices connected to the Internet is increasing, exchanging large amounts of
data, and turning the Internet into the 21st-century silk road for data. This road has taken …

Growing main memory capacity has fueled the development of in-memory big data
management and processing. By eliminating disk I/O bottleneck, it is now possible to support …

As main memory grows, query performance is more and more determined by the raw CPU
costs of query processing itself. The classical iterator style query processing technique is …

Analytical databases are continuously adapting to the underlying hardware in order to
saturate all sources of parallelism. At the same time, hardware evolves in multiple directions …

Recently, the machine learning research trend expands to the system performance
optimization field, where it has still been proposed by researchers based on their intuitions …

Computer architectures are quickly changing toward heterogeneous many-core systems.
Such a trend opens up interesting opportunities but also raises immense challenges since …

There has been significant amount of excitement and recent work on GPU-based database
systems. Previous work has claimed that these systems can perform orders of magnitude …

Data-intensive applications seek to obtain trill insights in real-time by analyzing a
combination of historical data sets alongside recently collected data. This means that to …

Modern state-of-the-art database systems are designed around a single data storage layout.
This is a fixed decision that drives the whole architectural design of a database system, ie …

The trend toward specialized processing devices such as TPUs, DPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs
has exposed the weaknesses of PCIe in interconnecting these devices and their hosts …