Full name: Peter Boncz
Formal name: Dr. P.A. Boncz
Function: Scientific Staff Member

Email: P.Boncz@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4309
Room:  L316
Homepage:  http://www.cwi.nl/~boncz
Research groups:
(INS1) Database architectures

Research

Senior research scientist at CWI and part-time lecturer (UHD) at VU University Amsterdam, specializing in database system architecture. Architected two database systems, MonetDB and X100 (aka VectorWise). Participated in two successful CWI spin-off companies in large-scale data management: Data Distilleries and VectorWise. Supervised two completed PhD students (Marcin Zukowski and Ying Zhang) with three more in the pipeline.

Internationally well-known for work on columnar database systems, XML data processing and architecture-conscious database research. MonetDB and VectorWise are widely regarded as state-of-the-art analytical database systems.

Career

2008 - 2010	Founder and President of board VectorWise
2002 -	Scientific staff member INS1 - Database Architectures
1999 - 2002	Product line architect at Data Distilleries
1994 - 1999	PhD student University of Amsterdam

Selected Awards and Honours

2009	VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award
2006	ICT Regie Award

Selected Academic Activities

2012	Associate editor Journal: IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin
2011	Guest editor Journal: IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin - Volume: 33 - Number: 34
2011 -	Associate editor Journal: VLDB Journal

Selected Publications

S. Héman, M. Zukowski, N.J. Nes, L. Sidirourgos, P.A. Boncz. Positional update handling in column stores. Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 2010.

R. Cornacchia, S. Héman, M. Zukowski, Arjen P. de Vries, P.A. Boncz. Flexible and efficient IR using array databases. VLDB Journal 17, 151–168, 2008.

P.A. Boncz, M.L. Kersten, S. Manegold. Breaking the memory wall in MonetDB. Communications of the ACM 51, 77–85, 2008.

P.A. Boncz, T. Grust, M. van Keulen, S. Manegold, J. Rittinger, J. Teubner. MonetDB/XQuery: A fast XQuery processor powered by a relational engine. Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, 2006.

W. Alink, R. Bhoedjang, P.A. Boncz, Arjen P. de Vries. XIRAF - XML-based indexing and querying for digital forensics. Digital Investigation 3, 50–58, 2006.

M. Zukowski, P.A. Boncz, N.J. Nes, S. Héman. MonetDB/X100 - A DBMS in the CPU cache. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 28, 17–22, 2005.

P.A. Boncz. Monet: a next-generation database kernel for query-intensive applications. PhD thesis 2002.

P.A. Boncz, S. Manegold, M.L. Kersten. Optimizing main-memory join on modern hardware. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 14, 709–730, 2002.

P.A. Boncz, S. Manegold, M.L. Kersten. Database architecture optimized for the new bottleneck: Memory access. 1999.

All publications (link to repository)