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.
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:
- MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System – Tim Kraska.
- The Traditional Wisdom is All Wrong – Michael Stonebraker, Justin DeBrabant, Andy Pavlo, Stephen Tu, and Stan Zdonik.
- Techniques for Visualizing Massive Data Sets – Justin DeBrabant, Leilani Battle, Ugur Cetintemel, Stan Zdonik, and Michael Stonebraker.
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.