4 papers
EXPLAIN Yourself! Finding Query Planner Stalls Across DBMSes
Geoffrey X. Yu, Ryan Marcus, Tim Kraska
Query planners are typically expected to produce optimized plans quickly, leading many researchers (including the authors of this paper) and practitioners to design systems that as…
Tailwind: A Practical Framework for Query Accelerators
Geoffrey X. Yu, Ryan Marcus, Tim Kraska
Relational database management systems (RDBMSes) can process general-purpose queries, but often have lower performance compared to custom-built solutions for specific queries. For…
PBench: Workload Synthesizer with Real Statistics for Cloud Analytics Benchmarking
Yan Zhou, Chunwei Liu, Bhuvan Urgaonkar +11
Cloud service providers commonly use standard benchmarks like TPC-H and TPC-DS to evaluate and optimize cloud data analytics systems. However, these benchmarks rely on fixed query…
The Cambridge Report on Database Research
Anastasia Ailamaki, Samuel Madden, Daniel Abadi +43
On October 19 and 20, 2023, the authors of this report convened in Cambridge, MA, to discuss the state of the database research field, its recent accomplishments and ongoing challe…