Peter Boncz
- Full Name
- Prof.dr. P.A. Boncz
- Function(s)
- Scientific Staff Member, MT member, Professor - Vrije Universiteit
- P.Boncz@cwi.nl
- Telephone
- +31 20 592 4309
- Room
- L316
- Department(s)
- Database Architectures
- Homepage
- https://www.cwi.nl/~boncz/
Biography
Member of the CWI management team and researcher in the area of data systems. 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.
Publications
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Gubner, T.K, & Boncz, P.A. (2021). Charting the design space of query execution using VOILA. In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (pp. 1067–1097). doi:10.14778/3447689.3447709
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Gubner, T.K, Leis, V, & Boncz, P.A. (2021). Optimistically compressed Hash Tables & Strings in the USSR. ACM SIGMOD Record, 50(1).
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Kruit, B.B, Boncz, P.A, & Urbani, J. (2021). TAKCO: A platform for extracting novel facts from tables. In Companion of the World Wide Web Conference (pp. 705–707). doi:10.1145/3442442.3458611
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Boncz, P.A. (2021). Technical perspective DIAMetrics: Benchmarking query engines at scale. SIGMOD Record, 50(1). doi:10.1145/3471485.3471491
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Kruit, B.B, Boncz, P.A, & Urbani, J. (2020). Extracting N-ary Facts from Wikipedia Table Clusters. In International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings (pp. 655–664). doi:10.1145/3340531.3412027
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Ghit, B, Poggi, N, Rosen, J, Xin, R, & Boncz, P.A. (2020). SparkFuzz: Searching correctness regressions in modern query engines. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Testing Database Systems, DBTest 2020. doi:10.1145/3395032.3395327
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Lang, H, Beischl, A, Leis, V, Boncz, P.A, Neumann, T, & Kemper, A. (2020). Tree-Encoded Bitmaps. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (pp. 937–967). doi:10.1145/3318464.3380588
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Fuchs, P, Boncz, P.A, & Ghit, B. (2020). Edgeframe: Worst-case optimal joins for graph-pattern matching in spark. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGMOD Joint International Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences and Systems and Network Data Analytics, GRADES-NDA 2020. doi:10.1145/3398682.3399162
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Gubner, T.K, Leis, V, & Boncz, P.A. (2020). Efficient query processing with Optimistically Compressed Hash Tables & Strings in the USSR. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (pp. 301–312). doi:10.1109/ICDE48307.2020.000
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Ghita, B, Gomes Tomé, D, & Boncz, P.A. (2020). White-box compression: Learning and exploiting compact table representations. In Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research.
Current projects with external funding
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RelationalAI-CWI Research Agreement ()
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Actian Research Grant II (ACTIAN II)
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Databricks CWI Research Agreement (Databricks)
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Databricks III
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Lokale Digitale Competentie centra (DCC) (DCC-NWO-I)
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Research agreeement CWI - Databricks - vervolg contract (None)
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RelationalAI-CWI Research Grant Agreement (RelationalAI)
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Structure-aware Querying & Information Retrieval on Evolving Large Graphs (SQIREL-GRAPHS)
Professional activities
- Professor: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - [VU] - Large-Scale Analytical Data Management
- Honorary Position: Hans Fischer Senior Fellow - TU Munich
- Founder: Linked Data Benchmark Council (ldbcouncil.org)
- Founder: GRADES workshop series
- Founder: MonetDB BV
- Founder: of Data Science Platform Netherlands (datascienceplatform.org)
- Board Member: VLDB Endowment
- Committee member: DaMoN steering committee
- Advisor: Databricks Corp
- Editor: Journal: VLDB Journal
Awards
- 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)