The key objective of database systems is to e ciently manage an always increasing amount of data. Thereby, a high query throughput and a low query latency are core requirements. To satisfy these requirements, database engines are highly adapted to the given hardware by using all features of modern processors. Apart from ...

The journey of SAP HANA started as an in-memory appliance for complex, analytical applications. The success of the system quickly motivated SAP to broaden the scope from the OLAP workloads the system was initially architected for to also handle transactional workloads, in particular to support its Business Suite flagship ...

With the rapid growth of open RDF data in recent years, being able to perform multidimensional analytics with it has become more and more important, in particular for the data analyst performing explorative business intelligence tasks. Existing analytic approaches are often not flexible enough to address the needs of ...

Multiple applications, which share one common database, will evolve over time by their very nature. Often, former versions need to stay available, so database developers find themselves maintaining co-existing schema versions of multiple applications in multiple versions—usually with handwritten delta code—which is highly ...

Energy awareness of database systems has emerged as a critical research topic, because energy consumption is becoming a major factor. Recent energy-related hardware developments tend towards o ering more and more configuration opportunities for the software to control its own energy-based behavior. Existing research ...

Currently, there is a mismatch between the conceptual model of an information system and its implementation in a database management system (DBMS). Most of the conceptual modeling languages relate their conceptual entities with relationships, but relational database management systems solely rely on the notion of relations ...

In Hauptspeicher-zentrischen Architekturansätzen für Datenbanksysteme müssen für die Anfrageverarbeitung sowohl die Basisrelationen als auch die Zwischenergebnisse im Hauptspeicher gehalten werden. Des Weiteren ist der Aufwand, um Zwischenergebnisse zu generieren, äquivalent zum Aufwand, um Änderungen an den Basisrelationen ...

Query-specific code generation has become a well-established approach to speed up query execution. However, this approach has two major drawbacks: (1) code generators are in general hard to write and maintain, (2) code generators lack the ability to deal with custom operators. To overcome these limitations, we suggest ...

Zur Erforschung der verschiedenen Facetten von Big Data“ wurden jüngst drei Zen- ” tren gegründet. Hierbei handelt es sich um die vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderten Kompetenzzentren BBDC (Berlin Big Data Center, Leitung TU Berlin) und ScaDS (Competence Center for Scalable Data Services and ...

Hardware vendors constantly decrease the feature sizes of integrated circuits to obtain higher performance and energy efficiency. As a side-effect, integrated circuits - like CPUs and main memory - become more and more vulnerable to external influences and thus unreliable, which results in increasing numbers of (multi-) ...