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Making a tedious search a breeze: parallel query execution in multi-core systems
When you request information from a huge database, you might want to grab a cup of coffee and sit back, because your request may take a while. How can we optimize searches …
Martin Kersten appointed ACM Fellow
CWI fellow Martin Kersten has been appointed as one of the 2016 fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
CWI develops new tools for data exploration
PhD student Thibault Sellam from CWI developed new tools to explore large databases. It allows explorative users to find interesting information hidden inside a database, with little or no knowledge of the …
Martin Kersten receives 2016 SIGMOD Systems Award
Martin Kersten is the recipient of the 2016 SIGMOD Systems Award for the design and implementation of MonetDB, a pioneering main-memory database system based on a columnar data organization.
CWI spin-off MonetDB Solutions helps building ExaNeSt platform
In a new EU project MonetDB Solutions helps to showcase the future generation ExaNeSt platform, which consists of up to 10 million of low-cost and low-energy ARM processors. The CWI spin-off will …
Efficient method to make changes in compressed database
PhD student Sándór Héman from CWI developed a new method to compress a large database, allowing for a much faster transport of data from storage to processor. Furthermore he developed efficient algorithms …
Tracing Stars with MonetDB in the Cloud
The Dutch database technology company MonetDB Solutions and CWI will develop new techniques to facilitate the storage and analysis of the vast data volumes from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope. The …
Hannes Mühleisen in media about insecure wifi in trains
Hannes Mühleisen, a postdoc researcher at CWI, recently found that he could see too much information from the wifi network in NS trains, which are passing close by his home - a …
