VectorWise Technology: Current State And Research Challenges

Speaker:	Dr. Peter Boncz
		Researcher at CWI
		Amsterdam, Netherlands

Title:		"VectorWise Technology: Current State And Research
		 Challenges"

Date:		Monday, 10 August 2009

Time:		10:00am - 11:00am

Venue:		Room 3501 (via lifts 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

In this talk, I will describe the technology of VectorWise, a new CWI spin-out
company building a high performance database system focusing on
analytical applications. I will discuss the roots of this technology found in
the MonetDB/X100 project, and summarize the achievements of the past year of
development at VectorWise. The innovations in VectorWise can be found in an
extremely efficient execution kernel based on the principle of vectorized
execution, numerous architecture-conscious techniques, a hybrid compressed
row/columnar storage scheme, and new data structures and algorithms for handling
updates. VectorWise is a company with strong relations with academia, and the
purpose of this talk is to stimulate thought and discussion about future
cooperation.


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Biography:

Peter Boncz is a researcher in the database architecture research group (INS1)
of CWI since 2002. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Amsterdam
in 2002 with research on the use of columnar storage and architecture-conscious
query processing techniques for analysis-oriented applications such as data
warehousing. This work resulted in the open-source MonetDB database system. His
research interests include database architecture, P2P systems, XML and RDF query
processing, and architecture-conscious database techniques. He also co-started
the DaMoN workshop series that has brought together architecture-conscious
researchers at the last five editions of SIGMOD/PODS. Peter also was a
co-founder of Data Distilleries BV, that used MonetDB in commercial data mining
technology, and was acquired by SPSS in 2002. He recently founded VectorWise, a
spin-off created around the CWI-developed MonetDB successor system X100, the
topic of this talk.