Peter Boncz

Full Name

Prof.dr. P.A. Boncz

P.Boncz@cwi.nl

Phone

+31 20 592 4309

Room

L316

Department(s)

Database Architectures

Function(s)

Scientific Staff Member, Groupleader

Biography

Leads the Database Architectures research group at CWI. Professor in the special chair of Large Scale Analytical Database Systems at VU University Amsterdam. Co-founder of four spin-off companies in data systems. Founder of graph data council LDBC.

Leis, V., Gubichev, A., Mirchev, A., Boncz, P., Kemper, A., & Neumann, T. (2025). Still asking: How good are query optimizers, really?. In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (Vol. 18, pp. 5531–5536). doi:10.14778/3750601.3760521
Afroozeh, A., & Boncz, P. (2025). The FastLanes file format. In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (Vol. 18, pp. 4629–4643). doi:10.14778/3749646.3749718
Hepkema, S. H., Afroozeh, A., Felius, L., Boncz, P., & Manegold, S. (2025). G-ALP: Rethinking Light-weight Encodings for GPUs. In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, DaMoN 2025. doi:10.1145/3736227.3736242
Kuffo Rivero, L. X., & Boncz, P. (2025). Bang for the Buck: Vector search on cloud CPUs. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware. doi:10.1145/3736227.3736233
Kuffo Rivero, L. X., Krippner, E., & Boncz, P. (2025). PDX: A Data Layout for Vector Similarity Search. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (pp. 196:1–196:26). doi:10.1145/3725333
Felius, L., & Boncz, P. (2025). VCrypt: Leveraging Vectorized and Compressed Execution for Client-side Encryption. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (pp. 1158–1161). doi:10.48786/edbt.2025.113
Bindea, B. N., Katsogiannis-Meimarakis, G., Zecchini, L., Afroozeh, A., Kuffo Rivero, L. X., & Boncz, P. (2025). Reproducibility report for ACM SIGMOD 2024 Paper: “ALP: Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Compression”. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (pp. 51–54). doi:10.1145/3687998.3717057
Gross, P., ten Wolde, D., & Boncz, P. (2025). Adaptive factorization using linear-chained hash tables. In Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research.
Kuiper, L., Gross, P., Boncz, P., & Mühleisen, H. (2025). Saving Private Hash Join. In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (Vol. 18, pp. 2748–2760). doi:10.14778/3742728.3742762
Szárnyas, G., Bebee, B., Birler, A., Deutsch, A., Fletcher, G., Gabb, H., … Boncz, P. (2024). The linked data benchmark council (LDBC): Driving competition and collaboration in the graph data management space. In Proceedings the TPC Technology Conference (pp. 90–106). doi:10.1007/978-3-031-68031-1_7

VLDB Test of Time Award for "How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?" (2025)
Test of Time Award at the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) (2024)
VLDB 2023 Best paper award for "The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload" (2023)
Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (2020)
Best paper runner up award, International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2017) (2017)
Humboldt Research Award (2013)
VLDB 10-year - Best Paper Award - 27 August (2009)
DaMoN workshop - with Marcin Zukowski, Niels Nes and Sandor Héman (2008)
DaMoN workshop - with Sandor Héman, Niels Nes and Marcin Zukowski (2007)
ICT Regie Award (2006)

Founder: MonetDB BV
Professor: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - [VU] - Large-Scale Analytical Data Management
Founder: Linked Data Benchmark Council (ldbcouncil.org)
Founder: GRADES workshop series
Honorary Position: Hans Fischer Senior Fellow - TU Munich
Founder: of Data Science Platform Netherlands (datascienceplatform.org)
Advisor: Databricks Corp
Board Member: Secretaris Data Science Platform Netherlands (DSPN)
Speaker: Keynote speaker - HardBD International Workshop on Big Data Management on Emerging Hardware, ICDE 2018
Speaker: Keynote speaker - EDBT 2022
Honorary Position: ACM Fellow
Speaker: Keynote speaker - AMW 2023

Actian Research Grant II (ACTIAN II)
Databricks CWI Research Agreement (Databricks)
Databricks III (Databricks III)
Databricks Research Grant (Databricks iV)
Democratizing Insight Retrieval from (Semi-)Structured Data (DataLibra) (DataLibra)
Lokale Digitale Competentie centra (DCC) (DCC-NWO-I)
Motherduck Service Agreement (Motherduck)
RelationalAI-CWI Research Grant Agreement (RelationalAI)

Large Scale Data Engineering
1 sep 2023 - 1 nov 2023

Peter Boncz

Biography

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Current projects with external funding

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Peter Boncz

Biography

Publications

Awards

Professional activities

Current projects with external funding

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