DBRGlog

Meeting 19 Aug 2010

hyungsoo — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:30:51 +0000

Dear everyone,

The next DBRG meeting will be held on Thursday, 19 Aug, around 3pm in SIT Boardroom 124. The speaker will be Uwe, and he will discuss the following paper that will appear at VLDB 2010:
MRShare: Sharing Across Multiple Queries in MapReduce

Please feel free to join and hope to see you all.

Meeting 21 April 2010

Uwe — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:18:27 +0000

The next DBRG meeting is on Wednesday, 21 April, at 10am in room 459.
Uwe will present a paper from the upcoming 2010 SIGMOD on benchmarking cloud infrastructures, which investigates the performance, scalability and costs of several big cloud infrastructures, including Amazon’s S3, Google AppEng and Microsoft’s Azure. I think it will be quite an interesting read and would expect quite a controversial discussion at SIGMOD about it.

Please feel free to join

Meeting 30 October

Uwe — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:49:36 +0000

The next DBRG meeting is on Friday, 30 October, at 11am in room 459.
Akon Dey will present the following CACM paper, which describes an attempt to use a declarative language (and db techniques of optimizing the processing of such) to describe network protocols. This paper was in the most recent CACM as a “research highlight”.

Please feel free to join

Meeting on 16 October

Uwe — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:24:09 +0000

The next DBRG meeting for is on Friday, 16 October, 11:10am in room 459.
Akon will talk about some of the large-scale data processing systems at
Yahoo!
Please feel free to join

Meeting on 9th October

Uwe — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:26:09 +0000

The next DBRG meeting for is on Friday, 9 October, 11am in room 459.
Meena will present the attached paper from VLDB Journal 2007 by Theo Harder and Andreas Buhmann on Value Complete,Column Complete,Predicate Complete, Magic words Driving the Design of Cache Groups.

Please feel free to join

Meeting on Friday 2 October

Uwe — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:22:14 +0000

The next DBRG meeting for is on Friday, 2 October, 11am in room 459.
Michael Cahill will present the attached paper from SIGMOD 2009 industrial track on Oracle’s Compensation-Aware Data Types.

Please feel free to join

Next Meeting: Friday 18 Sep

Uwe — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:09:29 +0000

The next DBRG meeting for is on Friday, 18 September, 11:10am in room 459.
Kushal will present the attached paper from VLBD09 on Pangea: An Eager Database Replication Middleware guaranteeing Snapshot Isolation without Modiﬁcation of Database Servers.

Please feel free to join

SRF Wrapping and Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT)

Uwe — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:02:57 +0000

The next DBRG meeting for is on Friday, 11 September, 11am in room 459.

Harshana will talk about his current work on SRF file wrapping and his future plan to include the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) into his prototype.

Please feel free to join

VLDB Trip Report

Uwe — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:59:28 +0000

The second DBRG meeting for semester 2 is on Friday, 4 September, 11am in room 459.
Alan will give a trip report from VLDB2009 in Lyon, France.
Please fell free to join in

First Meeting Semester 2

Uwe — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:09:44 +0000

Our first meeting for semester 2, 2009, is on Friday, 21 August, 11:15am in room 459.

We will talk about the SIGMOD 2010 and also organise our talks until the end of the semester.
If you are interested in a specific topic or are about to finish a project, please let me know so that we can schedule this in.