Our group includes PostDocs, PhD students, and student assistants, and is headed by Prof. Felix Naumann. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Felix Naumann.
For bachelor students we offer German lectures on database systems in addition with paper- or project-oriented seminars. Within a one-year bachelor project students finalize their studies in cooperation with external partners. For master students we offer courses on information integration, data profiling, search engines and information retrieval enhanced by specialized seminars, master projects and advised master theses.
Most of our research is conducted in the context of larger research projects, in collaboration across students, across groups, and across universities. We strive to make available most of our data sets and source code.
Ph.D. student at the chair for Infomation Systems at Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering. I am in the distributed computing research group, where we investigate computationally complex problems and how they can be solved in distributed environments.
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Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3 D-14482 Potsdam
Schmidl, S., Schneider, F., Papenbrock, T.: An Actor Database System for Akka.Proceedings of the conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology, and Web (BTW) - Workshopband. pp. 225-234 (2019).
AbstractSystem architectures for data-centric applications are commonly comprised of two tiers: An application tier and a data tier. The fact that these tiers do not typically share a common format for data is referred to as object-relational impedance mismatch. To mitigate this, we develop an actor database system that enables the implementation of application logic into the data storage runtime. The actor model also allows for easy distribution of both data and computation across multiple nodes in a cluster. More specifically, we propose the concept of domain actors that provide a type-safe, SQL-like interface to develop the actors of our database system and the concept of Functors to build queries retrieving data contained in multiple actor instances. Our experiments demonstrate the feasibility of encapsulating data into domain actors by evaluating their memory overhead and performance. We also discuss how our proposed actor database system framework solves some of the challenges that arise from the design of distributed databases such as data partitioning, failure handling, and concurrent query processing.
