Database Architectures group news

NGF AiNed Fellowship for democratizing insights from structured data

Institutions lacking resources are struggling to make use of huge amounts of structured data, creating a data literacy gap and making them fall behind large corporations. Madelon Hulsebos, an incoming tenure-track researcher, …

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Fast and efficient data analysis thanks to new database architectures

CWI’s long-term software development has led to fundamentally new database architectures that have transformed a trillion-dollar global database market.

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MonetDB Foundation launched

In January 2024 the MonetDB Foundation was established for the preservation, maintenance and further development of the MonetDB project – a trailblazer in the world of database management systems.

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Test of Time Award for paper on vectorized execution

A CWI paper on a new way of implementing database systems has won the Test of Time Award, established by the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). The paper was published …

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Database startup MotherDuck raises $52 million to grow DuckDB-based platform

Duck DB database technology was developed at CWI by the Database Architectures group.

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Best paper award at International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

CWI’s Database Architectures group was recognized for the paper “The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload”.

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Hannes Mühleisen gives keynote on DuckDB during global data event

During the Data + AI summit in San Francisco, senior researcher Hannes Mühleisen gave a keynote on the creation of DuckDB. For 50,000 listeners he spoke about the observations and insights that …

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DuckDB: Introducing a new class of data management systems

As CWI database architecture researchers, Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt invented a new, much more efficient database technology for analysis. After its introduction in 2021 it now reaches two million downloads per …

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