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VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award for hardware-aware database technology
Researchers Peter Boncz, Stefan Manegold, and Martin Kersten of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam won the prestigious VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award on August 27.
Ingres and CWI spin-off VectorWise announce dramatic database performance improvement
Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company, announced on 29th July the Ingres VectorWise project. This is a collaboration between Ingres, VectorWise - a spin-off company from the leading database …
CWI database team wins Best Paper Runner Up at SIGMOD 2009
The database team of CWI received the SIGMOD Best Paper Award Runner Up on July 1, during the 35th SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD'09) in Providence, Rhode Island …
Automatic extension database systems with new Armada Model
Databases are getting bigger and bigger: an increase of data in the order of gigabytes or even terabytes is not unusual anymore. What to do if a database no longer fits on …
Grant for advanced database research
New spin-off MonetDB B.V.
To stimulate commercial applications and to disseminate scientific research, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam founded MonetDB B.V. in 2008. In 2024 the MonetDB Foundation was launched.