Welcome to the home page of the Data Management Research Group at Brown University's Department of Computer Science. Our research group is focused on a wide-range of problem domains for database management systems, including analytical (OLAP), transactional (OLTP), and scientific workloads.

Latest News

New England Database Summit 2013

January 31st, 2013

The New England database community will hold the sixth annual New England Database Summit on February 1st at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In this all day conference-style event, participants from the research community and industry in the New England area come together to present ideas and discuss their research and experiences. The event will feature keynotes from Phil Bernstein (Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research) and Mike Cafarella (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan).

The Brown Data Management Research Group will present three papers:

Fall 2012 Database Talks

September 13th, 2012

The Brown Department of Computer Science is hosting several database talks this semester:

September 26th Data as a Service: Bringing Databases to the Cloud Eric Schrock
Delphix
October 4th MongoDB Tech Talk Eliot Horowitz
MongoDB
October 11th 21st Century Transactional Databases John Hugg
VoltDB
October 19th Cloudera/HDFS Tech Talk Todd Lipcon
Cloudera
October 23rd Truth Finding on the Deep Web Xin Luna Dong
AT&T Research Labs
October 26th Big Data Visual Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities Remco Chang
Tufts University
November 7th State-of-the-Art Database Index Maintenance Bradley Kuszmaul
Tokutek
November 28th Exploiting Advances in Processor, Memory, and Networking Technology to Achieve Order of Magnitude in Database/Data Store Availability Performance, and Cost John Busch
SchoonerSQL

Please see the Brown CS event calender for more details and times.

New Faculty Member

September 4th, 2012

The Data Management Group is proud to announce that Tim Kraska will be joining as a new faculty member at Brown this winter. Tim received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2010 under Donald Kossmann and is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California–Berkeley’s AMPLab under the prudent, but stern, guidance of the hirsute professor Mike Franklin.

You can read more about Tim and his research in the University’s New Faculty Member Profile.