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

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.

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.
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
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
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).
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.
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 Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (pp. 90–106). doi:10.1007/978-3-031-68031-1_7
Püroja, D., Waudby, J., Boncz, P., & Szárnyas, G. (2024). The LDBC social network benchmark interactive workload v2: A transactional graph query benchmark with deep delete operations. In Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (pp. 107–123). doi:10.1007/978-3-031-68031-1_8
Afroozeh, A., Felius, L., & Boncz, P. (2024). Accelerating GPU Data Processing using FastLanes Compression. In 20th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, DaMoN 2024 (pp. 1–11). doi:10.1145/3662010.3663450
Battiston, I., Felius, L., Ansmink, S., Kuiper, L., & Boncz, P. (2024). DuckDB-SGX2: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly within Confidential Analytical Query Processing. In 20th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, DaMoN 2024 (pp. 14:0–14:5). doi:10.1145/3662010.3663447
Afroozeh, A., Kuffo Rivero, L. X., & Boncz, P. (2024). ALP: Adaptive lossless floating-point compression. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD).

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
Board Member: Board of Directors of the CIDR organization 2020-2025
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

Publications

Awards

Professional activities

Current projects with external funding

Courses

Peter Boncz

Biography

Publications

Awards

Professional activities

Current projects with external funding

Courses

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